[the_old_crowd] Re: Some questions

[Kathy King]

On 1/14/06, Talisman <talisman22457 at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Kathy King <kking0731 at g ...> wrote:
> Snow:
> >I thought it might have been one of the extra defenses that were
> >discussed
> >earlier in the book too but decided that the Order was the extra
> >defenses
> >since Hogwarts had already been known to have its own spells cast so
> >no one
> >could apparate etc.
>
> Talisman:
> Notwithstanding the fact that I think DD knows pretty much everything,
> the text reads:
>
> *The castle's magical fortifications have been strengthened over the
> summer, we are protected in new and more powerful ways...*(168).
>
> New protections, both magical in nature and plural in number are
> explicitly referenced.  That doesn't fit with an interpretation that DD
> merely means that the Order is helping out, which they have also done
> in the past--both officially and unofficially.
>
> The straight-forward answer is that new enchantments are in place.
>
> Snow:



So then you feel that this is a new occurrence, as of HBP, that the air
flight security measure into Hogwarts was not in place during neither the
scene of Norbert's escape nor the flying Anglia?


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