[HPforGrownups] Dennis's Great Escape or Another Flint?

[Vivamus]

No: HPFGUIDX 118868

> > > Charme:
> > > 3) The Creevy brothers could already have found
> > > their own ways out of 
> > > Hogwarts (Dennis is TINY - no telling what he could
> > > fit through)

> > Juli:
> > Please tell me how, I am busting my brains here and I
> > can't find a way other than the secret passages.
> > 
> > I'm sticking to my theory: it's either a Flint or the
> > rules have changed.

> bboyminn:

. . . Good stuff snipped . . .

> Like I said in my post - 'Filch standing at the front door checking
> names would never be enough to stop ... any ... moderately ingenious
> student'.
> 
> I also think any speculative solution should fall more into the
> catagory of schoolboy mischief than extreme or unusual magic. A
> levitation charm is pretty straight forward and one of the first charm
> every student learns. Climbing out a window, or sneeking out early is
> standard schoolboy fair. 

I think you are spot-on, bboyminn. 

When I think about how much thought and creativity my friends and I put into
outsmarting our elders when I was a teenager, and add onto that all of the
additional abilities of school-boy-level magic, the possibilities become
limitless.  As a very wise person once said, even the most controlling
adults might spend five or ten minutes out of the day trying to outsmart
kids.  Kids, on the other hand, while they lack adult experience, can work
on outsmarting adults full-time.  Unlike Snape, Filch does not seem very
bright, so outmaneuvering him would be (literally) child's play.

One thing that does puzzle me, though, is why no one could figure out how to
submit their names into the GoF.  About a dozen ways to do that *without*
using magic occurred to me, assuming simple things like Wingardium Leviosa
wouldn't work.  

Vivamus, whose cat Snickersqueak can no longer levitate, but he still dreams
about it