What about the Door slightly FF

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 99594

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" 
<willsonkmom at m...> wrote:
> 
> Jo Ann,
> > The only thing I can think of that would account for the Life 
> Debt,  therefore, is that James must have managed to get 
between the two  of them, shoved Snape  back toward the far 
end of the tunnel, and then probably  transformed into 
> > Prongs. 
>  Okay, everybody can now proceed to pick holes in my logic.  
> Enjoy.  ;)
> > 
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> Potioncat:
> I forgot to make notes of snipping, but I snipped a lot.  Your 
> theory sounds good.  My only thought is that neither Snape nor 
DD  know that James was an animagus.  So he must not have 
transfigured  unless of course, he managed to transfigure 
without Snape seeing and come back out as a human.<

Pippin:
But how would a fully antlered stag manage  the tunnel?  A 
stag's not a burrowing animal like a dog or a wolf. I can't see one 
crawling, or fighting on its knees.

My guess is that James flew straight from the window of 
Gryffindor Tower on his broomstick (we know Harry sometimes 
keeps his broom with him instead of in the broomshed.) He 
used his chaser's skills to toss a rock at the knot, rocketed down 
the tunnel on his broom, risking his neck at every turn and twist, 
and grabbed Snape. They escaped riding in tandem with Lupin 
getting closer and closer behind. They didn't dare to stop and hit 
the knot on the way out, so as  they escaped they got walloped, 
James's beautiful, expensive broom was totalled, and to top it all 
off McGonagall showed up in her tartan bathrobe to haul them to 
the Headmaster's office to explain themselves. 

Pippin
apologizing for the slight fan fic flavor