Harry's Jaunt to Hogsmeade

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 57397

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Eric Oppen" <oppen at m...> wrote:
 
> For that matter, it was quite a jump for the MoM to _assume_ 
instantly that
> Sirius Black was after Harry Potter specifically.  "He's at 
Hogwarts?"  That
> could refer to _anybody_ who is currently "at Hogwarts" in any 
capacity.  

Yes, but since they thought that SIrius was responsible for betraying 
the Potters, only to have that dratted infant defeat his lord and 
master, Voldemort, I don't think it's a stretch to think that Sirius 
had evil thoughts about Harry.

On the other hand, if they truly thought Sirius was a madman (and 
Fudge can't seem to make up his mind about that), then why would they 
assume Sirius would even be aware that Harry was of age to be at 
Hogwarts?


> 
> Come to it...if they thought that Sirius Black _was_ Voldemort's 
right-hand
> dude, why didn't it occur to anybody that what SB was talking about 
was his
> Lord?  "He's at Hogwarts" could have meant that SB had figured out 
that
> _Voldemort_ was hidden in the school somehow, and had nothing to do 
with
> Harry Potter.  The Big V had been there before, after all.

But, the official line is that V is virtually helpless, if not 
actually dead.  Again, if Sirius was indeed muttering about 
Voldemort, the MoM would put it down to the ravings of a madman.


> I think that the MoM was jumping to conclusions, and that this is 
another
> example of Ministry corruption and ineptitude.  Putting Dementors 
around
> Hogwarts, after the Dementors had slipped up already and let SB get 
loose
> somehow, is yet another example...I'd have used Aurors, who can 
tell the
> difference between a student and an escaped convict, and aren't too 
likely
> to try to suck anybody's soul out of them.

You know, I don't think I've ever thought about that.  Why not use 
Aurors?  They'd be easier to communicate with.  They are trained to 
fight the Dark Forces.  They can have the sense of sight, which the 
Dementors do not have.  And they don't give everyone the heebee- 
jeebees when they're around.  Nor would they suddenly take it into 
their heads to attack a student.

Just why wasn't there a contingent of Aurors at Hogswarts?  Who was 
around to control the Dementors if they got out of hand, other than 
the professors?  What kind of Ministry simply dumps a bunch of soul-
suckers around a school, apparently with no one charged with 
controlling them?  

Marianne