Harry, Hermione, Sirius, and the Dream

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116930


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Magda Grantwich 
<mgrantwich at y...> wrote:
> > Finwitch:
> > 
> > Normal working day? Sure, but Harry *had* seen the corridor in 
DoM 
> > before, during the day he had trial (otherwise it'd just be some 
> > corridor he'd not recognise). He HAD seen DoM before, during a 
> > working day, and NO ONE was there then as far as he could see.
> 
> 
> Well, actually HE was there himself, and Arthur Weasley who'd taken
> him there, and everyone in the wizen-whatchamacallit was there too. 
> So during a working day there would likely be people around that
> area.  

Not in the Department of Mysteries corridor - they just happened to 
be in the same *floor*. (Wonder if the workers wear invisibility 
cloaks for uniform?)
 
> > And the SNAKE got there just fine to kill Arthur, which WAS a 
true 
> > vision. So apparently, Voldemort knows how to get in (and 
besides, 
> > Harry saw Lucius Malfoy, a DE, giving bribes when he was at the 
> > Ministry).
> 
> That happened in the middle of the night.  The Sirius-vision 
happened
> in the afternoon.

 
So did the TRUE vision Harry had in GoF, during Divination Class. And 
um... maybe it was Saturday? And just because the place was seemingly 
empty (except for Voldemort & Sirius) does not invalidate the vision. 
Not in WW, where you'd have Polyjuice Potion, invisibility cloaks etc.
 

> 
> > And um - what if Voldemort HAD captured Sirius and was torturing
> > him in order to get Harry there - possibly polyjuiced as an auror 
> > or something..?
> 
> But he hadn't, had he?  

You know, we don't know HOW Voldemort tricked Harry. What if he had 
one of his DEs or some captured Ministry official (Fudge, perhaps - 
or someone else?) drink Polyjuice with Sirius hair (provided by 
Kreacher) and go on with the torture until he knew Harry saw it...

As it is, Harry had NO WAY to know his Vision was incorrect. And 
anyway, Voldemort was there in the end, was he not?

And as for the mirror, Sirius was tending Buckbeak when Harry called. 
Kreacher may have answered the mirror as well as fire-place.

Finwitch