Possible Flint: Fireplace in the common rooms

[Ashley]

No: HPFGUIDX 83399

artcase <artcase at y...> wrote:
> How/why do students receive mail by owls? 
> 
> If their parents could use the floo network to communicate (much 
> like a telephone/transporter) why would they resort to the much 
> slower, less efficient method of owl post?
> 
> AND for that matter, how do the teachers keep the student from 
> leaving the school/parents from coming into the school via floo?
> 
> My only guess is that it is restricted in some manner, which makes 
> Sirus's useage ("broke into a wizarding house...")highly unlikely.
> 
> Maybe I'm just reading  too much into it, but what is stopping LV 
> from using a wizarding house (in the same manner) and dropping in 
> on Harry some late night?


   I would think it would be a privacy issue.  Sirius waited until 
late at night for the chance to talk to Harry alone, not many parents 
would encourage late night conversations on schhol nights.  I also 
couldn't imagine parents or children wanting to hold a conversation 
in a place as public and noisy as the common room.
   As for leaving by floo, a place with as much security as Hagwarts 
(anti-apparition for example) probably has control over who comes and 
goes by floo.  It's shown in book 5 that it is possible to regulate 
the floo network.  It seems that there's a difference from actually 
traveling by floo and speaking through it.  

"Ashley"