I'd say it's 'yes, there's a way through the wards' but without any information on HOW.

I mean, one of the possibilities was that he was actually in the Protectorate the whole time, and the chasing around in France was someone completely different, which is why they thought he was dead but he really wasn't. So it's not completely useless.

Hermione, ask him this, I phrased it as carefully as I could.

How can a person get from the Protectorate to France without being given official passage through the wards?