[HPforGrownups] Re: Portkey and Floo in Hogwarts.

[RSFJenny19 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 81665

bboy_mn wrote:

<We have seen 'fire talking', but we have never seen anyone use the
Floo Network to get into or out of Hogwarts. 
<major snip>
So, given all these assumptions, I'm back to what I originally said,
Dumbledore as headmaster controls the castle's protection and is
therefore able to cast a Portkey charm that gets around them. >


Now RSFJenny here:

I just wanted to point out that DD did use the Floo Network to get back to 
Hogwarts at the end of OOP. But your theory of DD being able to circumvent 
castle protection would obviously cover this as well :)

Having the Hogwarts fires connected to the Floo Network seems awfully shaky 
writing to me, even if people couldn't actually travel in them but could only 
communicate.  This seems like one of the things JKR didn't really think through 
(kind of like the toothbrush/portkey thing), it just looked good plotwise but 
doesn't fit properly into the WW scenario she's already set up - if Sirius 
could talk to Harry in the fire, why aren't parents pestering their kids in the 
Gryffindor fire on a regulat basis - can't we all see Molly spying on her kids 
(for their own good of course, in her opinion) if she could?  Why isn't it 
used more? Harry first learns of this in GoF, so it's not common in the fires of 
Hogwarts. Not to mention the possibility of traveling between house common 
rooms via fire...

ugh, I can't go on, it's too depressing to see such a major (IMO) oversight, 
I hate realizing all the unutilized (is that a word?) possibilites...


~RSFJenny~

"Imagine wasting your time and energy persecuting merpeople when there are 
little toerags like Kreacher on the loose -" -Sirius Black

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