Harry, Hermione, Sirius, and the Dream

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 116845



Magda: 
 
> I agree with Del.  Hermione's comments were just too logical - it 
was
> the middle of the afternoon, there would be hundreds of MOM 
employees
> around, getting in would have been impossible - to be dismissed as
> easily as Harry did.  

Finwitch:

Well, you know - just because Hermione thinks it's impossible, 
doesn't mean it is. After all, with things like Invisibility Cloaks, 
Apparation, Polyjuice Potion, Unforgivables...

Hermione was underestimating Voldemort and Harry's visions - which 
had so far been real. Curiously enough, as much as Hermione 
disregards Divination - (which is the closest study-able thing to 
visions) - it is only Trelawney's death-predictions that have not as 
yet, come true. (And of course, with death, it's just a matter of 
time, as wizards aren't immortal). And just because it's more LIKELY 
to be a trap - well, Trelawney's TRUE prophecy Harry witnessed (and 
Hermione didn't believe) wasn't likely - not even according to 
Trelawney herself. So um - when it comes to a warning vision, it 
would be wrong to disregard it for logic. And that was all Hermione 
had against it.

Magda: 
> Also while the vision of Arthur and the snake had been real, it was
> also clear that this vision was different.  Harry insists that there
> had never been anyone in the DoM when he'd been there before and
> Hermione replies that he's never been there, he'd just dreamed about
> it before.  And that's our clue that something is very off about 
this
> vision: if Harry's seeing the DoM as he's seen it in what he knows
> are visions from Voldemort's mind rather than as it must be during a
> normal working day, then something is badly wrong.

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.

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).

Harry knows full well how corrupted the Ministry is - the Ministry 
that denied Voldemort ever came back. And besides, Voldemort WAS at 
the Ministry in the end, was he not?

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..?

Finwitch