MOVIE: moving staircase

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 21578

Scott wrote:

> > 4. The moving staircase looks a little, uh...dangerous. I know 
they 
> > move but this makes it look as though one could easily fall to 
ones 
> > death. I didn't think they were quite so risky. (are they supposed 
to
> > be?) 

Amber wrote:
 
> In my mind, I've always thought the moving staircases didn't move 
with
> people on them. I thought it was more of one day the staircase is
> there, the next it may be somewhere else. Or one day the staircase
> would lead to Trelawney's classroom and the next day it would lead 
to
> the prefect's bathroom. 

That's what I pictured too.  But they do have to move at some 
particular moment, a moment at which, if you're very unlucky (e.g., 
your name is Neville), you might be standing on them.

I've been waiting since book 1 for the moving staircases to be a plot 
point.  Just a small thing, like Harry really needs to get somewhere 
in a hurry and the *&#%$ staircase isn't where he expects it to be.

Amy Z
who will forgive JKR if it never happens