HP and the Stair that Creaks

[shutupanakin]

No: HPFGUIDX 54702

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "a_rude_mechanical" 
<a_rude_mechanical at y...> wrote:
> When I re-read CoS, I couldn't help noticing that Harry CLEARLY 
warns 
> Fred and George about the bottom step of the staircase at the 
> Dursleys (when they sneak downstairs to get his trunk out of the 
> cupboard).  He tells them "Watch out for the bottom stair--it 
> creaks." I also noticed that the creaky step is CLEARLY included in 
> the film SS.  
> 
> Has anyone else noticed this?  Is it going to come up again??
> 


  A friend pointed the squeaky stair out to me :) Normally I would 
just dismiss it as a plain old squeaky stair, but that's no fun. 

  I started thinking and I believe that the Dursleys are much too 
fussy about appearances and the state of their house (especially 
Petunia) to let something like a squeaky stair slip. Wouldn't Petunia 
have had Vernon repair that?  I'm thinking that there has to be 
something hidden under it. If that something happens to be magical 
maybe that's why the stair squeaks, it wants to be found. I think it 
could possibly be

1. The letter from Dumbledore that was left with Harry
2. Some sort of heirloom for Harry
3. If Petunia turns out to be a witch (I know there's speculation on 
that) it coould be where she's hidden her wand.

  I hope that it does come up again. And I think it will because it 
goes totally against the Dursley's characters to leave that stair a-
squeakin' unless it can't be helped. I wonder how long it's been like 
that. Hmmmmm.

   Lillian M.