Room of Requirement predictions
corinthum
kakearney at comcast.net
Sun Mar 20 04:56:04 UTC 2005
I've started reviewing the 3.16.1 Layout of Hogwarts category and
subcategories.
Having just started the Bathrooms & loos subcategory, I've already
encountered quite a few posts suggesting that either the prefect's
bathroom or the chamber pot room might be the favorite room JKR
mentions in her interview. They're coded in all sorts of ways,
usually with some combination or permutation of 3.16.1.1 Bathrooms &
loos, 1.12.2.2 Predictions/no canon, and 3.16.1.2 Room of Requirement.
I assume I'll start finding these all over this category, so I
thought I should get some opinions on how to handle them.
Certainly they need either one of the OOP predictions categories
(1.12.2.1 or 1.12.2.2). I was surprised the no-canon option seems to
have been favored here, since the prefects' bathroom guess is based on
canon (JKR's Harry-saw-it-in-GOF comment in conjunction with rooms
seen only in GOF).
I vote to get rid of the Bathrooms & loos category, or whatever
location category the prediction falls into, since these posts don't
really add to the location-and-presence discussion.
I'm undecided on the Room of Requirement code. Since we are of course
pre-OOP in our coding, this code only holds guesses right now, both
correct and incorrect. Many posts predicting the chamber-pot room
simply throw it out there as a suggestion, without any discussion of
why it may be important. But I know other people did correctly
predict the room's abilities. On the other hand, posts predicting
other rooms, like the prefects' bathroom, kitchens, etc., really
aren't discussing the Room of Requirement at all, except in retrospect.
Any thoughts?
-Kelly
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