Sirius reservations

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No: HPFGUIDX 79933

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, B Arrowsmith 
> <arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:
>  
> > Swim back to the mainland? In that physical condition? The 
> Lexicon  places Azkaban  in the middle of the North Sea, not 
> Hogwarts lake. It's at least 100 miles from shore.

Pippin> 
> One must go to the source, in this case the Scholastic Interview 
> of February 2000. Rowling is asked "Where is Azkaban" and 
> replies, "In the north of the North Sea. A very cold sea" Nothing 
> about a hundred mile swim there. 
>
 Kneasy:
Further than I thought, then. The north of the North Sea is where
it becomes the Artic Sea. More like 400 miles. With  an average 
Feb temp. of 30 -35 Fahrenheit. Survival time about 10 mins.

I rest my case.


Kneasy: 
> > Since when have Animagi been able to communicate with 
> other animals as  Sirius said he did with Crookshanks? Even as 
> a dog, can he talk cat? <
> 
Pippin
> Sirius does say he had trouble making Crookshanks 
> understand him. But as for Animagi communicating with other 
> animals, I refer you to GoF ch. 33.
> 
> Voldemort: "He sought me in the country where it had long been 
> rumoured I was hiding... helped, of course, by the rats he met 
> along the way. Wormtail has a curious affinity with rats, do you 
> not, Wormtail? His filthy little friends told him there was place, 
> deep in an Albanian forest, that they avoided.."
> 
Kneasy:
Accepted. But that does not mean that different species can
communicate. Can dog talk to cat? I have doubts. 

Kneasy
> > Hermione is the closest to Crookshanks and she doesn't have 
> this level of understanding or communication. How come Sirius 
> does?<

Pippin:
> Perhaps she's never tried.
 
Kneasy
Hermione buys an atypical looking cat from a magical animal
shop and doesn't try to communicate? Hermione?

Kneasy:
> > "I've been living in the forest ever since.."
> > Nearly an entire school year. With no problems from 
> Acromantula,  Centaurs, Werewolves or other friendly forest folk. 
> Hagrid never  noticed either, despite being the forest expert. Still, 
> it explains his  gaunt and hairy look.<
>
Pippin: 
> As Sirius says, "I doubt any students ever found out more about 
> the Hogwarts grounds...than we did." Sirius was familiar with the 
> Forest from his Marauder days, and had plenty of experience at 
> avoiding Hagrid.
>
Kneasy
Maybe so, for an afternoon. But  a year?  When beings like the
Centaurs talked to him and would certainly mention an intruder?
 
Pippin:
> Umbridge hasn't got the imagination to be a Death Eater. 
> ESE!Lupin, on the other hand...<g>
>

Kneasy:
Ah! Welcome to the Conspiracy Club! All suggestions carefully 
considered!