Tropical Birds

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 159127

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at ...> wrote:
>
> We found out in OOTP that Sirius had a nice safe hiding place in 
> Grimauld Place. Did he go there straight after leaving Harry in POA?
> 
> SB sent messages to Harry , not with owls, but with tropical birds. 
> (personally, I hoped they came from Australia to forshadow a DADA 
> teacher that wrestled Crocodiles)
> 
> But in light of OOTP, I am wondering if that was a decoy. By sending 
> tropical birds, it would seem Sirius was on another continent, while 
> he could have really just been arguing with Kreatcher all along. The 
> Tropical Birds may have been transfigured owls or Buckbeak even.


zanooda:

I think that, as Sirius' mother died when he was in Azkaban, there is
a chance that he didn't even know about it. If so, he wouldn't go to
GP thinking she still lives there. 

Even if Sirius found out about his mother's death (through Fudge, for
example), he couldn't be sure that she left the house to him,
considering their mutual animosity. As Sirius turned out to be the
owner after all, we can only assume that she didn't leave any will or
maybe she just didn't hate her son as much as he thought she did. 

Anyway, even if Sirius found out that he inherited 12 GP, he hated
this house so much he would prefer any other hiding place, IMO. 

It's fun to imagine Sirius in Australia with Buckbeak disguised as a
kangaroo :-), but I hope it was Canary Islands, that's where I would
go! Besides, isn't Australia too far for a hippogriff to fly to?