House Elves / apparating / Sirius

[Eddie]

No: HPFGUIDX 161179

> Jodi in VA replies:
> I have always wondered how Sirius got into Hogwarts after he escaped  
> Azkaban.  He can't apparate there.  Well, this post made me somehow  
> think that perhaps he could apparate into the Shrieking Shack (it has  
> no doors right?) and then take the pathway down under the Whompin  
> Willow to get inside Hogwarts.
> 
> What do you all think?

Eddie:
Seems reasonable.  This would explain, too, how Crookshanks learned to
stop the Whomping Willow's whomping.  He (Crookshanks) may have
watched Fluffy!Sirius do it as he left the Hogwarts grounds.

Or, Sirius could have apparated into the basement of Honeydukes and
taken the secret passage there, but what with the Dementors all over
Hogsmeade that may have been more treacherous.  I guess Sirius could
have apparated into any of the secret passages that lead into Hogwarts.

It's interesting that JKR never provided a canonical answer to how
Sirius got in.  It would have taken no more than one sentence to
confirm this.

Eddie