Hogwarts, A History (was: Unanswered questions)

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 39509

marilyn wrote:
> But I was under the impression that all the copies were checked out 
> *because* people wanted to find out about the chamber, as I can't
> think of any class that they'd need it for.  Dumb History of Magic 
> never covering anything of interest, as it were.
> 
> But!  I also thought it was strange that they had to go to the
> library to get it, as Hermoine has obviously read at least some of it 
> already, before she gets to Hogwarts.  How would she have done that
> without owning it?  Is there a library in Diagon Alley that we don't 
> know about?
>
> --marilyn, who is very excited about discovering a group of people as
> determined as she is to discuss HP as much as possible.  hi!

> "Why do you want it?" said Harry.
> "The same reason everyone else wants it," said Hermione, "to
> read up on the legend of the Chamber of Secrets."
> [p147-8, CoS]

There is, of course, another possibility: that indeed people took it 
out to look up info on the chamber of secrets and that the "Selective 
and Highly Biased History of Hogwarts" (liberal translation), apart 
from not mentioning house-elves at all, mulls over the Chamber of 
Secrets part. That would explain why all the books are out, but no-one 
knows anything about it (and why Hermione doesn't remeber anything 
about it).

Hope that helps

Grey Wolf, who is stranged at being accused of other people's reading 
habits. His post on the questions was humoristic in nature and not to 
be taken too seriously, and, since it included a general warning, 
didn't think it was necesary to include every other line: "there is no 
canon either way for this" - which, OTOH, isn't the same as IMO.