[HPforGrownups] A Certain Room

[Mary Shearer]

No: HPFGUIDX 34545


--- jrwilkens <wilke013 at gold.tc.umn.edu> wrote:
 I'd thought I'd start with posing a question I
> ran 
> across in perusing the interviews on the Lexicon
> site.  I haven't seen anyone address what room JKR
> is 
> referring to in this quote.  Any ideas??
> 
> If you could travel to Hogwarts for an hour, what
> would you do there? 
> 
>   Go straight into a certain room, mentioned in book
> four which has certain magical properties Harry
>   hasn't discovered yet! 

Welcome, JRW - fun question! If it were me, I'd pick
the prefects' bathroom...but I doubt that a fourteen
year old boy is gonna appreciate it's "magic" the way
a stressed-out 37-year-old woman can!  There could be
more than meets the eye there, though.

My other guess would be the antechamber off the great
hall.  We see the room twice, but briefly in GoF. 
First, when the champions gather there for
instructions immediately following the goblet's
decision, and later when the families come to greet
them before the third task.  Bill Weasley looks around
the room fondly - as though it is special to him - and
says, "It's great being back here!"  Then Violet, the
fat lady's friend winks at him from her portrait on
the wall.  Why would he choose that room in which to
wax nostalgic? Seems to me he'd say that out in the
impressive great hall, or in the Gryffindor common
room, or any number of other places in which memories
are made - but a little-used room off the dining hall?
 I dunno - just a guess, but maybe that room is
significant somehow. 

-Mary, who thinks the antechamber off the great hall
better be pretty special to top the prefects'
bathroom!  
>
http://www.comicrelief.com/harrysbooks/pages/transcript2.shtml
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> JRW
> 
> 
> 
> 


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