Marauders' Map Blocked Passage

cynthiaanncoe at home.com cynthiaanncoe at home.com
Thu Oct 11 19:37:31 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 27512

Here's another question, and I sincerely hope that it isn't too 
terribly dumb.  

In PoA, Fred and George tell Harry that there are 7 secret passages 
on the Marauder's Map, and Harry observes that "many of them seemed 
to lead" to Hogsmeade.  One starts at the one-eyed witch and leads to 
Honeydukes.  One starts at the Whomping Willow.  Filch knows about 4 
of them.  The last is the "one behind the mirror on the fourth 
floor."  Fred says that they "used it until last winter, but it's 
caved in -- completely blocked."  

In CoS, Ron, Lockhart and Harry are in a tunnel, which leads from 
Moaning Myrtle's (which floor?) and caves in when Ron's wand 
backfires.  Is JKR referring to the same tunnel Fred and George say 
was blocked, or does she perhaps have something else in mind for the 
blocked tunnel on the Marauder's Map?  

Cindy





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