Crying wolf?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 82038


Talisman: 
> > Check out Fudge's dodgey manner when he's telling Harry how it's 
> > best for him to stay at the Leaky Cauldron, "`Don't want to lose 
you 
> > again, do we?' said Fudge with a hearty laugh.  `No, no . . .best 
we 
> > know where you are . . .I mean . . .'" (PoA 46)
> >

> Kneasy:
> "...lose you again..." What an interesting phrase. When was the last
> time they lost  him? When he got on the Knight Bus perhaps, with no
> idea where  he was heading?
> 
> We know DD  has  been keeping an eye on Harry, so apparently has
> Fudge. Was it two watchers  or a combined operation? I don't see
> DD  sharing resources and secrets with Fudge, he wouldn't trust
> him. Relevant information, yes; but more than that I doubt.
> 
>  Who did the watching for Fudge?
> 
> In the Sirius Reservations post (79808) I  pointed out that in his 
> rambling tale of his escape, Sirius never claims to have zipped
> south to see Harry; but this has been a 'given' among posters.
> What if it wasn't Sirius after all, but a watcher for Fudge?

Oh, but Sirius  does indeed claim that. He writes in the letter Harry 
receives on the train ride at the end of school in PoA "I would also 
like to apologize for the fright I think I gave you that night last 
year when you left your uncle's house. I had only hoped to get a 
glimpse of you before starting my journy north..."

Now, maybe there were two large black dogs there, one Padfoot and one 
Mystery Fudge Informant, and Harry only saw one, but I think that's a 
stretch.  Then the question arises about why Sirius would swim across 
part of the North Sea, dash south to see Harry, and go back north 
again.  I'm not going to try to fit this into any theory.  I think 
that JKR simply didn't think or care about this bit of geographic 
overload.  I think she simply wanted to foreshadow Sirius' 
appearance, while developing the threatening presence of the Grim, 
and that's what she did, whether or not it makes sense when viewed 
with an eye towards how much traveling Sirius would have had to do.

Marianne