[HPforGrownups] Location of the Hufflepuff Common Room

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 18530

Jennifer: <<<In the Lexicon it is stated that Hufflepuff's common room is
"unknown, but down a staircase of the main hall". I suppose it's there because
of the lines in Goblet of Fire, chapter 17, page 248: "Instead of going up the
marble staircase, Cedric headed for a door to it's right. Harry stood listening
to him going down the steps beyond it..."
<snip>
But it got me thinking of something I read in Chamber of Secrets, chapter 11,
page 148, when Ernie McMillian is telling his fellow Hufflepuffs: "...I told
Justin to hide up in our dormitory...". When saying this, he himself is in the
library.
Now, if the Hufflepuff common room is located above the library, does that mean
that the library is located in the basement?>>>

Even if the common room is below ground this does not mean the dormitories for
that house are similarly situated. The Gryffindor males have to go up some
stairs to get to their dormitories (or at least Harry's lot do and I assume the
same is true for the other males and possibly the females as well). If the same
is true for the Hufflepuffs' then the dorms may be quite a few floors above the
library, but with the common room well below it.

Also just because Cedric at first heads down from the main hall this does not
mean that he does not go up again to reach the Hufflepuff common room. Shortcuts
can involve going up and downstairs.


Circe: <<<This may have been answered and I missed it, but the answer to this
may simply be that people often don't use directions up & down correctly. I have
a friend with a summer house in Massachusets (we live in the south) and it's
always referred to as "when we go down for the summer".>>>

Of course this could explain it as well. 'Everyone' knows that bedrooms are
always up in a house. So the natural phrase is 'up in our dorm'.



Simon (I just realised a small irony in using the below sig - I don't drink
coffee!)
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" Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups -
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