Lavendar's rabbit / TimeTurner-MaraudersMap / Chamberpot Room

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Kyrstyne tanie wrote:

> she made a good point, Binky hadn't died on the 16th, (but why not?
> I mean it shouldn't take an owl that long to get to Hogwarts from 
> her house. Well, it depends on where she lives, too.

There is evidence that Lavendar is Muggle-born, so getting a letter 
from her parents to her would take more than one owl. (My theory: 
Post UK to an address on Charing Cross road next door to the Leaky 
Cauldron, where it is picked up once a day and taken to the Owl Post 
Office in Diagon Alley, where the outer envelope is opened, the money 
in the outer envelope is used to pay for the owl, and the inner 
envelope, addressed to the real recipient (Lavender Brown, Hogwarts 
School, Scotland) is given to the owl.) 

Being Muggle-born might also explain why she didn't take Binky to 
school with her: her parents were ignorant enough to think that the 
part of the Hogwarts letter that says students may bring a cat OR an 
owl OR a toad meant what it said, and that she wasn't allowed to 
bring some other kind of pet. You'd think, tho', that by third year, 
she'd have seen enough of Ron's rat, Lee's tarantula, and other 
non-standard pets to know that no one would give her aggravation 
about bringing her bunny to schoool. Hey, if someone did, she could 
just say that Binky is a long-eared, vegetarian, jumpy cat.

The evidence is when Trelawney tells Harry that he has the Grim: "He 
could tell that he wasn't the only one who didn't understand; Dean 
Thomas shrugged at him and Lavender Brown looked puzzled, but nearly 
everybody else clapped their hands to their mouths in horror." We 
were outright told that Dean Thomas was raised by Muggles (in CoS: 
"Dean Thomas, who, like Harry, had grown up with Muggles, ended up 
closing his eyes and jabbing his wand at the list, then picking the 
subjects it landed on.") My assumption here is that ALL the 
wizard-raised students know about the Grim, as Ron did, and some 
Muggle-born students have already heard of the Grim from friends or 
reading (as Hermione did), so everyone who didn't know what the Grim 
is must be Muggle-born. I am not pleased about Lavendar being 
Muggle-born, as Lavendar Brown strikes me as such a very wizarding 
name.

Eclipse wrote:

> I don't know if it's been discussed, but I wondered if a person 
> using a time turner shows up more than once on the map. If so why 
> doesn't Lupin comment that he say Harry and Hermione twice by 
> Hagrid's hut? 

The Map wouldn't be all that good if it DIDN'T show people who had 
got there by Time-Turner. So the only explanation I can think of is 
that Lupin was watching the map So Carefully that once he saw the 
Trio go into Hagrid's Hut, he stared right at the hut until he saw 
them leaving it. Of course, then he saw Pettigrew with the Trio and 
stared straight at the foursome all the way to the Whomping Willow. 
Once he saw Pettigrew, it's not a big surprise that his eyes didn't 
drift maybe less than an inch to the H&H who were (also) watching the 
Trio leave Hagrid's hut. And if he had stared at the hut with enough 
concentration while waiting for the Trio to emerge, then he could 
have managed not to see the H&H lurking beside the hut.

To me, the bigger mystery is how Fred and George NEVER saw Peter 
Pettigrew hanging arouund with Ron. S'okay, they had no need to look 
into the Gryffindor Class of 1998 boys' dorm, so they didn't see Ron 
in bed with a male name they didn't recognise, but how did they never 
see Harry, Hermione, Ron, and Peter wandering the Castle together?  

Tex wrote:

> Wondering if the map has a "drag and drop" feature, so the 
> Marauders can move people around if they are in an inconvenient 
> place.

LOL, but that would make the people suspicious!

Eledhwen wrote:

> What is up with the room that is mentioned in GoF by Dumbledore,
> during the Yule ball? The one that might only be reached when the 
> person has an exceptionally full bladder.

Like Kyrstyne tanie, I thought that room was just a joke, either a 
joke by Dumbledor or a joke by JKR. But the Comic Relief JKR chat 
http://www.comicrelief.com/harrysbooks/pages/transcript2.shtml 
(I found it by Mike's useful site: 
http://www.geocities.com/aberforths_goat/ ) 
has the following:

"Q: If you could travel to Hogwarts for an hour, what would you do 
there? 
JKR: Go straight into a certain room, mentioned in book four which 
has certain magical properties Harry hasn't discovered yet!"  

And when this statement was being debated, someone made a plausible 
argument that she was referring to the chamberpot room. Of course, 
other people made equally plausible arguments for the prefects' 
bathroom, the little room next to the Great Hall, and the kitchen.