Attack on Hogwarts?

[arrowsmithbt]

No: HPFGUIDX 107632

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_reader2003" <carolynwhite2 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
> > So far, of all the named places of significance in the WW, there's 
> > only one we haven't been to - Azkaban. Now that  the Dementors
> > have gone Harry and his chums could visit without having an 
> > attack of  the  vapours.
> 
> 
> Carolyn:
> Worth remembering something she says on her website about the 
> earliest versions of Chapter 1 of PS/SS:
> 
> '[I had] the Potters living on a remote island, Hermione's family 
> living on the mainland, her father spotting something that resembles 
> an explosion out at sea and sailing out in a storm to find their 
> bodies in the ruins of their house.'
> 
> She says she subsequently re-located the Potters to Godric's Hollow, 
> for plot reasons, but then goes on to say:
> 
> 'I have come close to using a chapter very like this in PS, POA, OOP, 
> but here [ie Book 6] finally, it works...when you read it, just know 
> that it's been about thirteen years in the brewing.'
> 
> It seems to me that the idea of an explosion on an island out at sea 
> could very well become an explosion at Azkaban.
> 

Hmm.
Wish you'd posted this before I sent in the RADIO TBAY, I could have
used it for the lead story (and yes SSSusan, that story was inspired
by the Fudge threads).

Explosions are a rare event in the WW - we know of two - Godric's
Hollow and the Sirius/Peter  confrontation. Would either have
been powerful enough to reduce Azkaban to rubble? Seems doubtful,
though we really have no idea how big the place is. I'd always
envisioned it as big and solid - a cross  between 19th Century Bedlam
and Dartmoor. No reason it should be,  though; how many prisoners
are in there? A few dozen at most, now I come to consider it.

One small snag is geography - it's supposed to  be waaaay out at
the northern end of the North Sea; which puts it a couple of hundred
miles from the mainland at least. (One of the reasons I was so sceptical
about Sirius having swum to shore). Any explosion is unlikely to be
noticed, I'd have thought.

Unless the WW has done another St Mungo's and disguised  Azkaban
as something else - like an oil rig.

Or - maybe Privet Drive gets  blown up; that'd explain her comment
that Harry only spends a short  time there this summer. Bits of Dudders
being spread round the neighbourhood for the delight and delectation
of the local moggies would be quite entertaining.

Or - it's never been determined whether or no the Godric's Hollow house
was the Potter family pile. I suspect not, in which case Harry's inheritance
could could vanish in a small mushroom-shaped cloud. She'd placed the
GH house on an island and then changed the venue, so maybe the old
homestead will be out on the briny instead.

Or - the Burrow. 
Enemy action or Gred and Forge being a bit too ambitious?

Worth a few wild thoughts.
Though I still  fancy the Chamber for the final show-down.

Kneasy