Good Writing (was Why now?)

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 110991

> Del wrote:
(snip)
> ! My personal pet peeve being that if Harry could get his head at 
GP,
> and if he didn't intend to take his friends with him to the MoM, and
> if he was in such a hurry to get to London, then why on Earth didn't
> he take *all of himself* to GP, and checked on his own whether 
Sirius
> was there or not ??? (snip the rest)

Ginger ponders:

Sorry for getting in late on this, but it just popped into my head.  
I am pretty sure I have read all the posts on this thread, but if 
anyone else has thought the same, and posted it, please accept my 
apologies.

If I am understanding this correctly, we are wondering why Harry 
didn't *go* to GP rather than just chat with Kreacher.  Well, 
Hermione planned the chat just to check on Sirius, not as a means of 
transport.  I can see why Harry wouldn't want to go completely into 
GP just to check and see if Sirius was there.  If he had gone in full-
body, he wouldn't have known what was going on at Hogwarts.  Most 
importantly, he wouldn't have known if DU was returning to her 
office.  Had he gone in, searched the house, and then returned, he 
was risking coming back to DU rather than just Hermione (who would 
have been having a hard time explaining why she was lurking there).  
And he would have had no way of finding out what the scene in the 
office was without sticking his head in the fireplace to check first.

Had things worked out, (no DU showing up) Harry would have gotten the 
false info from Kreacher, and then, believing Sirius to be in danger, 
would have gotten down to the task of figuring out how to get to 
London.  If the fireplace was good for extra-Hogwartian transport 
(and I am among those who suspect not) then the answer would have 
been staring them in the face.

In summary-I think that they weren't *looking* for a means of getting 
to London at that moment, merely a means of talking to someone at 
GP.  And if all you intend to do is chat, then best keep your 
buttocks in the country in which it belongs.  Especially if you can 
hear what is going on at both ends.

Ginger, who doesn't mean to imply that Harry can hear through his 
buttocks.