[HPforGrownups] Into the Chamber...

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 12571

Scott asked: "In re-reading the CoS today I came up with a question. Just
how did they know it was Ginny who was taken into the chamber.

If there really ARE 1,000 students at Hogwarts it would certainly take time
to find out which one it was. Also it seems that most students didn't event
know what was going on.

So how did they know?"

I think there is a fairly simple answer to this.


The writing is found on the wall, which says 'Her skeleton will lie in the
chamber forever'.

So they narrow it down to being a female student that is missing. The
writing is found during a lesson so it is easy enough to work out who is
missing from each lesson, as each teacher can do a role call of who should
be present in his or her lesson.

They then find the females on this list and work out which are unaccounted
for and get left with Ginny as being the only one missing and with no
explanation for why she is not in lesson.


Simon
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