[HPforGrownups] Re: Location of the Hufflepuff Common Room

[Morag Traynor]

No: HPFGUIDX 18562

Steve wrote:
> > --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jennifer" <jennifer.k at l...> wrote:
> >
> > > 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
>
>I think he's saying "hide up" as in "hide out," maybe.
>
>The Hufflepuff common room may very well BE up. We don't have any
>idea where Cedric went after he went through that door. He may have
>gone up another longer staircase after he went down one. The truth is
>that we have no real idea where either the Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff
>common rooms are.

As a Brit, I'd interpret that as hide "up in our dormitory", implying that 
the dormitory is on a higher floor than the speaker was, at the time.  We 
know the rooms, stairs and corridors can move around, though I'd imagine the 
House areas of Common Room and bedrooms would stay put.
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