WW Communications (was Re: Why didn't C!M apparate?)

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
<patientx3 at a...> wrote:

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> HunterGreen:
> I think it was me who asked that question the most (or all) times. 
> Can dementors appaperate? You're right that they had to get to 
Surrey 
> somehow, I'd doubt they'd be missed if they glided or flew (or 
> however they move) all the way there. I can't see Dementors using 
a 
> portkey (I don't know why, just seems strange to me), so 
appaperation 
> does seem the most likely answer. Did Fudge send an emergency owl 
to 
> Azkaban then? Or use Floo powder? Do fires even work around 
> Dementors? (or is that movie contamination?). 

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Speed of communications in the wizard world are, indeed, intriguing. 
Owls, because they can take months/days (and be intercepted or 
occluded against by their targets), seem to me to be like muggle 
world snail mail or even Email (you can't guarantee its recipient 
has read it until you hear back), whereas fireplaces are like 
instant messaging/telephones. You know if you didn't connect. Two-
way Mirros (a la OotP - though we've not seen one in action yet, 
except between the Marauders off-page) are also an 'instant' way to 
communicate and another (or fairly instant at least) is pictures 
(the healer/headmistress witch who goes from DD's office to 
St.Mungo's to check on Arthur Weasley). And then there's the Bertie 
Botts' beans cards (?) if you believe the theory. So, if wizards can 
do 'instant', whyever do slow (apart from from physically delivering 
something)? I would guess that this is another 'when it suits the 
plot' issue. It suited the plot, for example, for Harry to forget 
the 2-way mirror, but not in future if JKR's hints are for real.