[HPforGrownups] Re: which room?

[Fiat Incantatum]

No: HPFGUIDX 41617

On 21 Jul 2002 at 12:09, kangasboy wrote:
> > Denise wrote:
> > "(Taken from Comic Relief online chat March 2001)
> > Q: Isaac -If you could travel to Hogwarts for an hour, what 
> > would you do there?
> > 
> > A: Go straight into a certain room, mentioned in book four 
> > which has certain
> > magical properties Harry hasn't discovered yet!"
> 
> To which Rosie replied:
> > Isn't it in Book 4 that Dumbledore finds the room full of 
> > chamberpots? If so... this should be a good candidate I think! 
> 
> Initially this seems to be what JKR is hinting at. . .  But why on 
> earth would she want to go there first? She could be joking of 
> course, but why wouldn't she answer seriously to a serious 
> question?

Maybe the room isn't *always* full of chamber pots, but was on that 
particular morning because that's what Dumbledore was looking for (more 
or less) at that moment.  He DID make a joke about it being able to be 
found only by people with very full bladders ... maybe the secret is that 
it's only able to be found by people who really need something?

It *is* the sort of thing JKR would do to us ... give us a completely 
obvious "throw away" joke and then turn it into an important plot point 
in the next book (or so) while we're all still laughing.

  
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