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

[Karen]

No: HPFGUIDX 151680


On Apr 30, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Phil Vlasak wrote:

> 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.
> <snipped>
> 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.
>

kchuplis:

OK, didn't they explain in the book that the dementors do not pay  
attention to him in dog form because they do not sense animal  
emotions the same way? All he has to do is go through the forest  
basically. Getting in and out of the castle itself never appears to  
be a big problem for three teenagers, let alone an animagus. I don't  
see what the big mystery is.