[HPforGrownups] Re: Why not floo instead of thestral to London?

[Julia Reyes]

No: HPFGUIDX 91768

a_reader2003:
> > Is anyone else as irritated as me that Harry and Hermione didn't 
just 
> > floo out of Umbridge's office straight to Grimmauld Place, 
instead of 
> > wasting all that time being caught and riding thestrals to 
disaster 
> > in the MoM ?

Julie R.:
 
I am a novice with this community so I hope I am replying correctly.
With the matter of using the Floo powder instead thestrals, the Floo network was being watched at the time.  If DA wanted to rescue SB without the Ministry of Magic finding out they would have had to take an alternate route.