[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius and jail

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 167532

> Asli:
> In F.A.Q on JKR's site, somebody asks how the ministry couldn't
> find Sirius Black by sending him an owl. The answer is:
>
> "Just as wizards can make buildings unplottable, they can also make
> themselves untraceable. Voldemort would have been found long ago if it had
> been as simple as sending him an owl!"
>
> However, if he made himself untraceable how can Hedwig find him? Did he make
> himself untraceable for everyone but Harry? How is that possible? Did J.
> Rowling make a careless mistake there?

My reading of that statement is that they could send an owl, and it
would arrive with their message, but they couldn't use that as a means
to locate him.

--Random832