[HPforGrownups] Haven't been here in a long time... questions on transportation

[Mich Verrier]

No: HPFGUIDX 131190

Mo wrote:

> I have always wondered about the floo network and portkeys at
> Hogwarts.  We know that portkeys have been able to transport students
> to and from Hogwarts (specifically in Dumbledors office) And if Harry
> can let his head transport through floo powder to another fire, and
> Sirius can transport his head to Hogwarts through the fire, there has
> been a connection both ways, which would lead one to assume that there
> entire body can travel through the floo network to and from Hogwarts.
>
> Has anyone else thought this peculiar?

Mich Verrier:
I really don't think that Harry or any one else who uses the Floo Network 
can travel their whole body through the fire, or if they can then they do it 
only at certain times. The part in The Chamber of Secrets comes to mind when 
Harry ended up in Knockturn Alley the first time he travelled by Floo Powder.  At 
that time he was able to climb out of the fireplace and look around at where 
he was.  I do however think that the only way that he would just have used 
his head to travel through and left the rest of him where he was would have 
been when he needed to have a quick word with people like Lupin or some one 
like that.

Mich Verrier.