[HPforGrownups] Re: Common Rooms

[Barb P]

No: HPFGUIDX 44663


bboy_mn wrote:

I don't think it's some much that the location are a closely guarded secret as it is that the house system keeps houses very isolated from each other. 

When he really wants to know, Harry doesn't have any trouble finding out where the Slytherin and Hufflepuff common rooms are. 


Me:

 

I don't agree.  They had to Polyjuice themselves into Crabbe and Goyle and get Draco Malfoy to lead them to the Slytherin common room.  That's quite a lot of trouble.  They were wandering around the dungeons rather aimlessly before Malfoy came along.  This part of the plan they evidently hadn't thought out very well.  They could have spent their entire hour wandering around the dungeons and transformed back into themselves before ever finding it--and even then, they could have waited quite a while before someone came along who knew the password.

 

As for the Hufflepuff common room, they don't ever find out where that is, they just see the general direction in which the Hufflepuffs were walking.  They still don't have the slightest idea where the entrance is, just as they only had a vague idea that the entrance to the Slytherin common room was somewhere in the dungeons.  That's not exactly narrowing it down.

 

Consider this, however: After the Fat Lady is attacked by Sirius and temporarily replaced by Sir Cadogan, I have a hard time believing that EVERY student in the school doesn't know where the entrance to the Gryffindor common room is.  Gossip about the incident must have included the reason for the attack.  I wonder if JKR will forget this in future books or remember that everyone who was in school when Harry was in third year very likely knows how to find Gryffindor House, regardless of what house they are in, and older students could also pass this information down to younger students.  This would now make Gryffindor the least secure house in the school, since, as noted by someone else, a person would merely have to lurk nearby and overhear the password in order to breach security.  I have a sneaking suspicion, however, that JKR will continue to behave, in future books, as though other students do not know the significance of the Fat Lady's portrait.

 

--Barb

 


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