[HPforGrownups] How did Black get into Hogwarts in PoA? (Was: Dumbledore on the Dursleys . . . )

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 151679

Carol again:
> Sorry. Of course I meant PoA. So, I repeat, how did Sirius/Padfoot get
> past the Dementors to enter Hogwarts and attempt to kill Wormtail (in
> PoA, not GoF)?
>
> Lupin seems to think that all he (Lupin) needed to tell DD was that
> Black was an Animagus, as if that in itself would explain how Black
> could get into Hogwarts. (He never mentions that he was also hiding
> the Marauder's Map from DD as he certainly should not have done if he
> were really trying to protect Harry from Black). But neither the
> Animagus form nor Black's knowledge of the secret passages fully
> explains (to my satisfaction) how Black got into Hogwarts in PoA,
> especially the second time.
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Now Phil:
Black could have used Crookshanks to buy him another broom and deliver it to 
the shack.
Then in human form he could have flown to the top of a tower and entered.
Phil who thinks the towers should have been more defended like the front 
door.