[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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