OOP: More Flints

[Marie Jadewalker]

No: HPFGUIDX 62958

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Grey Wolf" <greywolf1 at j...> 
wrote:
> ~Marie Granger wrote:
> > First, what was Dennis Creevey doing in Hogsmeade in chapter 
> > sixteen?  Since he started to Hogwarts in GOF, he should only be 
> > in his second year now.  Harry and co. weren't allowed to visit 
> > Hogsmeade until their third year.  What gives?  
> 
> I always thought that, even with Filch checking, it would be easy 
> to smuggle people down to Hogsmeade if they really wanted to. Harry 
> simply didn't try because - as always - he failed to notice that 
> some weekends the Common Room was emptier than normally, and if he 
> did, he had more important things in mind than that and didn't ask 
> (you know, first year being bullied by Snape, and trying to find 
> out about Flannel, and in the second year being the suspected Heir 
> of Slytherin).
> 
> Hope that helps,

It does, actually.  And without the Sirius Black escapee/dementor 
thing, it could be easier this year.  Another possibility I just 
thought of (given that Colin and Ginny are probably friends) is that 
Colin and Dennis were dying to spend more time with their hero 
Harry.  Since Colin couldn't get into Hogsmeade leagally, Colin 
mentions the problem to his friend Ginny "Can-do" Weasley, and she 
gets her brothers to help smuggle him into Hogsmeade through one of 
the secret passages.  Harry, of course, doesn't notice that Dennis is 
too young and so isn't curious about how he got there.  

> Grey Wolf, who thinks Marie might be onto something about those 
> OWLs, and thinks it's JKR's numberitis raising it's ugly head again.

*glows with pride*  Thanks, Grey Wolf.  I am eager to see if the 
number of Hermione's OWLs somehow answers this question.  

~Marie Granger