House Elves / apparating / Sirius

[Jodi in VA]

No: HPFGUIDX 161248

On Nov 7, 2006, at 5:57 PM, Jeremiah wrote:

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

Jodi in VA replies:

What I meant was he couldn't just "open the door and walk inside the  
Shrieking Shack" [because there is no door!] ... but he could  
apparate inside.  I hadn't really thought that there was a way to get  
inside it at all until I read that post earlier about house elves  
apparating when it occurred to me that you *can* get inside the  
Shrieking Shack from Hogsmeade - just apparate.

And for some reason it always bothered me that JKR had never  
explained in any of the books how exactly Sirius got into Hogwarts  
after he escaped Azkaban.  But she tells over and over how he's in  
Hogsmeade as a dog, etc.  So that makes sense - he uses the  
passageway between the Shrieking Shack and Hogwarts / Whomping Willow.

But apparating is my own answer to this mystery for my own peace of  
mind!!  Yay!!

-Jodi