Out of term activity at Hogwarts

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 75129

I'm too lack-of-sleep befuddled to figure out where I read this, but someone recently made comment about Loony Luna not being on the train at the end of the academic year, and would students be allowed to wander around Hogwarts during the Summer Holidays?  Would there still be any staff around?

A short while ago, Brian (my husband) was following his own line of research on rereading the books, and showed me the results of his checking in 'Quidditch through the Ages', when I noticed something else.  On the 'library loan record slip' page in the front, both T(erry) Boot and E(rnie) Macmillan are down as borrowing the book from the Hogwarts library in the August, which is definitely in the Summer holidays, regardless of when the holidays start.  This means that Irma Pince at least must have still been about and working, and accepted that these children had a reason to be there.

In addition, it is in Harry's first year that he borrows this book, and as these two boys are his contemporaries, it means that both of them were present in the school prior to officially joining it in the September, but still had library priviledges.  Why?

I'm too tired to think about this now.

Dawn


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