Another Eavesdropper?

[candlekicks]

No: HPFGUIDX 121851


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "inkling108" <inkling108 at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Hi, Keth, Tammy, Annemehr,
> 
> The portraits -- brilliant!  I forgot about them.
> 
> It seems (though we can't be sure) that the headmasters (e.g. 
> Phineas Nigellus) do follow certain rules, only travelling to 
their 
> other portraits, but if there are portraits of former headmasters 
in 
> their old house common rooms, word could have spread very quickly 
> indeed.
> 
> But I still wonder about the breaking glass and frantically 
> scurrying feet.  When people are stunned, don't they just keel 
over -
> - CLUNK, end of story?
> 
> Inkling

Linda adds:
I always assumed that the breaking glass was a result of the 
stunners hitting DD's trinkets. 

The protraits are a very logical source of the leak of information 
but I don't think that it is totally unlikely that McGonagal 
mentioned details of DD escape to other teachers, conversations that 
could have been overheard. She has no respect for Umbridge and has 
shown that she will act out of character to harass her. The 
fireworks and giving Peeves her cane and telling Peeves about where 
to cut the chandelier for example.