[HPforGrownups] Re: OK, The Portkey
Kriselda Jarnsaxa
thorswitch at thunderhaven.net
Sat May 10 17:11:40 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 57539
>Amanda wrote:
>Except that Sirius was not in Hogwarts when he Floo'd his head in
>to talk to Harry in GoF. He was in a house somewhere, off the
>grounds. So clearly you *could* Floo into Hogwarts from outside,
>which has always been (I think) one of the Mysteries and
>Inconsistencies.
Maybe I just missed it, but I don't recall the talking-head-in-the-fire
being specified as a form of travel via Floo powder. I'd gotten the
impression that it was a different kind of spell all together that allowed
someone to project their head into a fireplace, rather than moving their
entire body. I know that for someone to go somewhere by Floo powder there
doesn't have to be a fire burning in the fireplace they're trying to reach
(otherwise, Mr. Weasly and the kids wouldn't have been able to make it to
the Dursley's fireplace at all), but for the talking-head messages to get
through it seems that there does have to be a fire, since that's what the
head appears in.
Oh, another thought - on a totally different thread - I was thinking about
the whole underaged magic rules. I don't know for sure if the MoM can tell
who performs magic and who doesn't, only that they can tell *where* it's
been performed. In CoS, when Dobby shows up and floats the violet pudding
in the Dursley's house, the MoM cites Harry for it, meaning they couldn't
tell that it *wasn't* Harry who actually performed the magic. It appeared
that all they knew was that someone in that house did magic, and since
Harry was the only known witch or wizard there - and was known to be
underaged - they presumed it was him. In a wizarding house, though, like
the Weasley's, there'd be magic going on ALL the time, and if they can't
tell for sure who is performing it, there's no way they could cite the kids
for doing it. That would explain why the rules seem to be applied
differently in those two situations.
Just a couple thoughts....
Kriselda
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