[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's office sealed? (short)

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 43514

On 3 Sep 2002 at 0:20, bboy_mn wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "fruhu" <iwant12 at h...> wrote:
> > In GoF page 408 (UK hardb.) Snape says he seals his office with a 
> > spell none but a wizard could break. But in her second year Hermione 
> > steals Boomslang skin from his private stores, and I don't remember 
> > there being a problem with breaking a seal. She just sneaks in there 
> > quickly when the others are at potions class.
> > 
> > "fruhu"
> 
> bboy_mn comments:
> 
> When Hermione stole supplies, they were from the supply stores in the
> classroom. Other references to Snapes office haven't given me the
> impression that it is in or near the potions classroom. Well, it's
> certainly in the dungeon, but I get no indication that it is attached
> to the potions classroom. 
> 
> So I don't think Hermione stole supplies from Snape's private office,
> but from his private supplies cuboard/room in the classroom. 

No - she definitely took them from his office -

>From Chamber of Secrets:

"In the second week of December Professor McGonagall came around as usual, 
collecting names of those who would be staying at school for Christmas. Harry, Ron, 
and Hermione signed her list; they had heard that Malfoy was staying, which struck 
them as very suspicious. The holidays would be the perfect time to use the 
Polyjuice Potion and try to worm a confession out of him.

Unfortunately, the potion was only half finished. They still needed the bicorn horn 
and the boomslang skin, and the only place they were going to get them was from 
Snape's private stores. Harry privately felt he'd rather face Slytherin's legendary 
monster than let Snape catch him robbing his office.

"What we need," said Hermione briskly as Thursday afternoon's double Potions 
lesson loomed nearer, "is a diversion. Then one of us can sneak into Snape's office 
and take what we need.""

and the office must be very near/attached to the classroom as Harry can see 
Hermione enter it after causing his diversion:

"Goyle's potion exploded, showering the whole class. People shrieked as splashes 
of the Swelling Solution hit them. Malfoy got a faceful and his nose began to swell 
like a balloon; Goyle blundered around, his hands over his eyes, which had 
expanded to the size of a dinner plate - Snape was trying to restore calm and find 
out what had happened. Through the confusion, Harry saw Hermione slip quietly 
into Snape's office."

I made dozens of notes on this in compiling my floorplans of Hogwarts (-8

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