Over Kill with Dementors

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 98023

> Heather says:
> One thing that I noticed is that Harry sees 'the Grim" (aka Sirius 
> as the dog)in the stands just seconds before the Dementors on the 
> pitch begin to affect him.  I think most people read this as being 
> a red herring explanation to Harry's nearly fatal fall from his 
> broom.  But later Sirius admits to Harry that he was indeed in the 
> stands that day and watched Harry fly.  I deduced that the 
> Dementors actually came onto the pitch that afternoon because they 
> had tracked Sirius there....


Siriusly Snapey Susan:
Except that I don't think the Dementors *could* track him there if 
he was in animagus form.  That's the reason he was able to escape 
from Azkaban in the first place--he said the Dementors are much less 
sensitive to the emotions of animals, and so when he slipped by, 
they were just confused.  I assume Sirius has been hanging around 
Hogwarts *only* in his animagus form, so I don't think the Dementors 
could have tracked him to the stadium any more than they tracked him 
into the Forbidden Forest, where he'd been hiding.  The given 
explanation--that they were so "hungry" they couldn't resist the big 
crowd--makes sense to me.

Siriusly Snapey Susan