Opening the doors (Was: Archived Wizards of the Month )

[Carol]

Tonks wrote:
>
> I clicked the timeturner. How do I open the door?

Carol responds:

I think it depends on which date you click. The Acknowledgements door
opens right away just by clicking on the handle, as do a few others.
The Christmas door opens by clicking on the Christmas tree in the
mirror. Another door opens to reveal darkness, and I guess you have to
figure out how to turn on the lights. (I know I did it once upon a
time, with help.) Also, I'm not sure whether you can redo the puzzles
(though Annemehr says she could so maybe she's just better at puzzles
than I am. :-p). I *couldn't* retake the Wombat, either because I've
already taken it or because I couldn't figure out how to do it. I
think your best bet is to go to Leaky and find the archived
instructions on how to work the puzzles, assuming that they're still
there.

I don't know how anyone figures out these puzzles on their own,
including the new one with the egg and the lacewing fly. Where do they
find the time and patience and ingenuity? Maybe they're young people
with a "lifetime" (read ten years) of figuring out clues in video games.

Carol, who has completely forgotten how she got through those doors
before but didn't spot any hidden keys and can't repour the red and
green drops because the lily is already a lily