Did Sirius have a knife?

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 59410

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ersatz Harry" 
<ersatzharry at y...> wrote:
>While I don't have PoA with me right
> now, I seem to recall that Ron said Sirius had a knife when he
> (Sirius) showed up in the dormitory, and that the curtains were
> slashed.  I definitely recall that the Fat Lady's painting was
> slashed, and I assume that Sirius didn't do that with dog claws 
since
> he had to be in human form to speak the password.  (He could have 
done
> it with a spell, I suppose.)
>Doesn't a knife seem to be a bit of a low-tech weapon for the WW?  Am
> I recalling Sirius's visit to the dormitory correctly?  Didn't 
Sirius
> have a wand at the Shrieking Shack?
> 

Me(Finwitch):
He visited twice. First time he slashed the Fat Lady (not knowing the 
password), second time he had the password list for Sir Cadagan, 
who'd FIGHT if he tried slashing. He might well have been in dog-form 
and used claws the first time. I doubt the prisoners are allowed to 
have knives in Azcaban - or are they? Maybe not in top-security 
section where Sirius was or whatever...

What comes to the wand, Sirius did have a wand when he was about to 
kill Pettigrew (only one murder), but it wasn't _his_ wand. Snape's, 
IIRC.. Anyway, he did not have a wand when entering Dormitory.

-- Finwitch