"The dementers? He's gotten past him before, hasn't he? Who's to say he won't get past them again?"

Seamus stood in the Great Hall with Harry, Neville, Hermione, Ron, Fred, and George. Hermione clutched Crookshanks to her chest. "That's awful frightening," she said, "and to think we thought Hogwarts was safe." "Sirius Black can't get in," said Fred, "he's never gotten in before as a captured man. What makes you think he'll come in again?" After talking about Sirius for awhile, the Gryffindors headed their separate ways. Harry, Ron, and Hermione to the common room and everyone else to their classes. "Why did we have to talk about Sirius?" Harry asked as they climbed the stairs. "Because everyone wants to know, Harry," Hermione said, "you can only hide it from some people. Everyone knows he's your godfather. That's no secret anymore." "I know that," Harry said angrily as they went through the portrait, "but I want to know why you two go along with it." "To make it sound reasonable, of course," said Ron, "if we three just stood there, people would think we were friends with him." "But we are friends with him!" said Harry, spinning on them. "We know, Harry," said Hermione gently, "but we don't want them to know. Another thing I can't believe is that he's coming here as Padfoot. I mean, it's dangerous. Malfoy's father knows about him as a dog, who's to say he hasn't told Malfoy to watch out for him? It's very dangerous for Sirius. I don't know why he's coming." "He wants to see me," said Harry, sitting by the fire, "he hasn't seen me in over two years. But he sent a letter saying he passed Azkaban the other day. He said he was lucky the dementers were here instead of there or he would've been caught." "That's what I mean!" said Hermione, "Anyone in the cells could've seen him. And they would've told the dementers immediately or at least someone. If he gets to roam around as a free man, they probably think they should too." "But he doesn't roam around as a free man," contradicted Harry, "he roams around—he doesn't even roam! He hides! He's a wanted man, Hermione. This wasn't the life he was searching for."