[HPforGrownups] Re: Sirius and jail

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 167549

> JW:
>
> If the owl delivers the message, the owl could be followed and the
> recipient found.  It appears this is what JKR means.

No, this was what the questioner meant. JKR was IMO refuting that statement.

> The only answer is that an owl sent by the MoM would not find Sirius
> or LV.

Or that if the MoM sends an owl, it will find them but they (the MoM)
cannot follow it.

>  As NOBODY has EVER found a careless mistake made by JKR ;D it
> must be that untraceability can be customized.

I don't see how it's unreasonable to think that, instead, the owl
itself could find them, but rather, they can cast a spell on
themselves such that an owl directed at them cannot be tracked.

It seems illogical, but remember, the analogy to unplottability, which
allows you to cast a spell on a property such that even on the survey
maps that were _already_ made showing #12 right between #10 and #13
Grimmauld place, no-one can find it.

> How can this be?  Shesezo strikes again!  It is GOOD to be Lord of
> the Universe!

Except "the owls can't find them" isn't what she actually said. She
said the Ministry couldn't use that method to find them (which is
perfectly satisfied by "they can send an owl, but they can't track the
owl in that case")

--Random832