The Timing of Lupin WAS - 'That Night'- Fudge After the Fact

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 109330

> Kneasy:
> 
> Back to  semantics and grammatical construction, I'm afraid.
> 
> "Black's been talking.." is the key I think.
> 
> I would read this as "Black has been talking" the implication being
> that it is a continuing activity.
> 
> If Black were no longer in residence then I'd expect it to be 
> written "Black had been talking".

Steve/asian_lovr2
"I don't personally find it all that uncommon or out of place for
Arthur to say "...Black's been talking..." which we assume means
'Black has been talking'. Especially when it is the guards speaking
and the time proximity is the very night Black escaped and perhaps
only minutes from that escape."


DuffyPoo:
First off, thanks to Kneasy for making me think, long and hard about this.  I do tend to agree with Steve though.  This isn't Arthur quoting Fudge or the guards, he's saying it himself.  The only quote in Arthur's statement was "He's at Hogwarts...He's at Hogwarts," the words Sirius was supposed to have muttered in his sleep.  Besides, who are the guards at Azkaban?  Just the Dementors?  If so, just how well educated are they?

I heard someone on TV yesterday telling a story about a woman struck by lightning in 1907.  She had her hand on a door knob in the house.  The lightning hit the rod on the top of the house, travelled down through the house, ripped up the floor, went up the door to the door knob, went through the woman and blew off her shoes.  He said "She's okay though."  Well, I doubt she IS okay, it's most likley she is, by this point, long since dead.  





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