Over Kill with Dementors

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 98260

Kneasy wrote:

> I  use the word "supposedly" deliberately.
> 
> Consider the sequence of events:
> Fudge visits Azkaban the *night before* Sirius' escape.

Marianne:

I'm not sure that's true.  Fudge gives Sirius the Daily Prophet, but 
I haven't found any indication that Sirius escaped the day after.  In 
fact, in PoA Chap 19 p. 372 (US ed) Sirius says that seeing the 
picture of the Weasleys with Scabbers lit a fire in his head that the 
dementors couldn't destroy, which gave him strength and cleared his 
mind so that "one night when they opened my door to bring food, I 
slipped past them..."

That sounds to me like a certain amount of time passed between the 
day Fudge handed over the paper and the day Sirius escaped.

much snippage of Kneasy'e always interesting conspiracy 
theory/questions.

As to an earlier question about why the Dementors at Hogwarts seemed 
to affect Sirius more than when he was in prison, I suspect that he 
didn't have a mob of them clustered around his cell, whereas he was 
smack in the midst of one at the edge of the lake.  

Marianne