The Floo Network and the Gryfindor Common Room

[Brenda]

No: HPFGUIDX 102838

>>> ~Mo wrote:
> I apologise if this hs been written before - I did a quick search 
> and couldn't find anything.
> 
> We all know that you cannot aperate into Hogwarts.  But, it seems 
> that there is no trouble using the Floo network to go in and out of 
> Hogwarts. ... if their heads can be in another fire, then why not 
> their entire body?
> 
> Wouldn't this be a very easy way to break into Hogwarts? <<<


Bren:

You have NO IDEA how much I thought of that everytime Sirius was 
talking to Harry in fire.  It would've been *really cool* if Harry 
kept him as Padfoot in his dormentory.

But when you are talking to someone in fire, your body is still left 
behind, right?  Like your lower limbs would be outside of the 
fireplace, not *in* it.  So that would be an incomplete Apparition, 
if you can call it that even.  Perhaps there are all sorts of 
charms/old magic protection which create a barrier in front of the 
Gryffindor fireplace.  You can see someone's head *in* the fire since 
it's part of Floo network, but once you try to get into the 
commonroom through fireplace, you might not be able to.  AFter all, 
we don't see Sirius trying to hug Harry in fire or even attempting to 
make any physical fatherly-contact.

What do you think?

Bren