Dumbledore on the Dursleys in OotP (LONG)

[deepthi_b1]

No: HPFGUIDX 151672

> Pippin wrote:
> > Who says he [Sirius Black] went door to door? I'm sure he used his
> patronus. Any Order member who saw Sirius's patronus would get in
> touch with Dumbledore at once, whether they believed the message or
> not, which is what Dumbledore would want. 
> > 
> > Harry was supposed to be in a magically induced sleep -- if he'd 
> taken all his potion as instructed, he  wouldn't have been awake at
> all. There wouldn't have been anything Sirius could do for him in 
that
> state.

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> 
> Carol responds:

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> At any rate, Black loved risk-taking and IMO would have wanted as
> large and active a part in the process of "alerting the old crowd" 
as possible, but Lupin IMO would have arranged it so that the risks 
were  reduced to a reasonable level. But for Black to use his Patronus would
> not require him to leave the building or transfer to dog form, as he
> does in that scene, and would not have been sufficiently "fun" to 
suit
> his reckless nature.
> 
> Carol, who still doesn't understand how Black/Padfoot got into
> Hogwarts (twice) in GoF unless he opened the heavy front doors with
> his paws right under the figurative noses of the Dementors
>

deepthi:

Carol, isn't it possible that Crookshanks may have carried out the 
work for Sirius like he had in many other occasions? And then Sirius 
could just walk in and do the stuff he wanted to. Though I'd like to 
know where were the dementors in the GoF. Surely, it was in PoA
(Prisioners of Askaban)as Dementors came into the 4th book only once 
and that was with Fudge to see Barty Crouch Jr.'s body. Then however 
he was accompanied by McGonagall even if he had encountered Dementors.