A Certain Room

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 36208

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "jrwilkens" <wilke013 at g...> wrote:
> 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! 

I have always had difficulty with this quote and the suggestions put 
forward for what it refers to.  The room apparently merits no more 
than a 'mention' in book 4 (so, surely, not the bathroom, which gets 
rather more?), but it seems (if she is playing fair) that Harry 
*might* have had the opportunity to discover its properties (so not 
the chamberpot room).

Then again, it is such a wonderful place that for JKR it trumps 
Dumbledore's office, the great hall, the kitchens... what sort of 
properties would do that?

Possibilities...

The Pensieve room is, in fact, at Hogwarts, and is a sort of central 
interdimensional Floo chamber.  None of the wizards there was 
physically present, and it offers instant access to the entire 
wizarding world (including the outposts on Mars and Zorg);

It is the prefects' bathroom after all.  The mermaid, and the satyr 
in the other picture Harry didn't see, are the magical sex education 
professors at Hogwarts.

The cupboard where Rita Skeeter interviewed Harry.  She left the 
Quick Quotes Quill there, and JKR wants it so she can finish the 
series by August.

The Owlery.  (Seriously) My bet.  Even as it is portrayed, I would 
love to go there.  But I don't know what other properties it 
plausibly might have.

David