Common Rooms

[Barb]

No: HPFGUIDX 29045

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., mss4a at c... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., davidjfein at h... wrote:
> > If it is for love, they 
> > would probably do what countless other 
> > schoolchildren have done over 
> > the years- hide in a closet or go off on the school grounds.
> > No way could they let non-housemembers in a common room.  
> > Dave
> 
> Where did Ginny catch Percy and Penelope kissing? I thought it 
> was a closet or empty classroom somewhere. This supports 
> Dave's argument.

When Harry and Ron are Polyjuiced and on their way to the Slytherin 
common room in CoS, they run into Penelope as she's coming up the 
stairs from the dungeons, and they mistake her for a Slytherin and 
ask her for directions (gee, that doesn't look suspicious <g>).  She 
indignantly tells them that she is a Ravenclaw.  Then, when they are 
in the corridor in the dungeons, Percy is seen emerging from a room 
down there, and he speaks to them briefly.  We only discover later, 
when Penelope is Petrified, that that's who the girl was.  Clearly P 
& P had some place in the dungeons where they were able to have 
trysts.  Percy was very snippy with Ron and Harry (he thought it was 
Crabbe and Goyle).  I think he was afraid they suspected what was 
really going on, but then Percy's guilty conscience also made him 
think that when Ginny was trying to tell Ron and Harry about the 
diary.

--Barb