Over Kill with Dementors

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No: HPFGUIDX 98291

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kiricat2001" <Zarleycat at a...> wrote:
> 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. 

Ah! You've missed it.
PoA chap 4 p.54 (UK ed). It's where Harry is eavesdropping on 
Arthur and Molly:
Arthur - 'They didn't report it to the press because Fudge wanted
it kept quiet, but Fudge went out to Azkaban the night Black escaped."

True, it doesn't look possible that Fudge handed over the Daily Prophet
on that occasion, but  I doubt Sirius has a subscription for a daily
delivery. Someone made sure he got hold of a copy of that particular 
edition. 

The guards told Fudge (do Dementors talk? Or are there other guards
knocking around the place?) that Black  had been talking in his sleep
"..for a while now..." But his escape is the night Fudge turns up.

What else can a poor conspiracy theorist think - the  worst, obviously.

Kneasy