Interpretation (was Re: Dumbledore's "peaceful expression"??

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 142001

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "montavilla47" 
<montavilla47 at y...> wrote:
 
> 1. He [Snape] contacts 12 Grimauld place (we don't know how) and 
detemines that Sirius is there.  
> Since we don't know how, we can't really know how long it took.  
But say it takes half an 
> hour--long enough for Ron, Neville, Ginny, and Luna to hex their 
captors and escape.

Hickengruendler:

I think we do. JKR said in her latest FAQ Poll answer on her website, 
that the means with which the Order communicates is a Patronus. And 
the question was based on the part of the book, where Dumbledore said 
that the Order has better communication methods. Therefore I think we 
are meant to believe, that he used his Patronus to communicate with 
Sirius. Since Tonks' patronus could tell, that she had found Harry, I 
think the Patronuses have a method  to make themselves audible (or 
maybe they are using a sign language???). And considering the time it 
took Tonks' Patronus to make it to the castle and Dumbledore's 
Patronus to make it to Hagrid's Hut (in GoF), and that the Thestrals 
were said to be very fast, I think (which is of course not absolutely 
sure), that the Patronus was not much faster than the Thestrals, if 
it is faster at all. Let's assume for a moment Snape is not evil (or 
at least wasn't at that time) and sent the Patronus to GP12 the 
moment he left Umbridge's office, than we can assume, that it took 
some time for the Patronus to make all the way to London. (Which by 
the way, it probably would even if it is significantly faster than 
the Thestrals). Then Sirius' answer would take the same time to reach 
Snape. And then Snape's second Patronus to Sirius would again need 
this time. This reasoning is of course problematic, because you would 
think the Order would need faster communication methods for those 
long distances. But still, this is what JKR implied on her website.   

Hickengruendler