[HPforGrownups] Re: House Elves / apparating / Sirius

[J]

No: HPFGUIDX 161181

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.

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Jeremiah:

That is exactly what I was thinking. Though (to be kinda picky) I don't think that havin doors on the Shrieking Shack would make it easier or more difficult to apparate into or out of.

Also, there's the Floo Network. Who's to say Sirius didn't break into a wizard's home (or any dwelling that was connected to the network) and get into Hogwarts. it would have been riskier but possible. Shrieking Shack to Womping Willow to the castle is most likely, in my opinion. 

Also, if he knew about the tunnel from Honeydukes to the hump-backed witch. Lots of possibilities.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]