[HPforGrownups] Re: The Floo Network and the Gryfindor Common Room

[Miller, Gina (JIS)]

No: HPFGUIDX 102840

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

Gina:
    Bren, I see what you mean. I remember when someone (Amos maybe? Can't
remember) shows up in the Weasley's fire at the Boro Mrs. Weasley puts the
toast in his mouth I assume because his limbs are not there. So maybe you
can use the Hogwarts fires in the dorms to talk but CANNOT use them as the
floo for traveling. 


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