Who sets the passwords?

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 77564

> > Wanda:
> > > I was just wondering, who makes up the passwords for the 
> Gryffindor 
> > > students?  I assumed it was McGonagall, and she probably sets a 
> new 
> > > one every week.  <snip>
> 
> 
>  Margaret replied:
> > 
> > I always assumed that the prefects made up the passwords, it 
would 
> > account for them always knowing what they were and when they were 
> > changed, as well as the fact that McGonagall is rarely seen near 
> > Gryffindor tower (I think it's mentioned in CoS that when she 
came 
> to 
> > tell them Ginny had been taken into the chamber it was the first 
> time 
> > arry had ever seen her there). <snip>
> 
> 
>   Now linlou:
> 
>         I was under the impression that the passwords are made up 
by 
> the portraits that guard the common room entrances. In POA, Neville 
> wrote them down in the first place because Sir Cadogen kept 
changing 
> them and he couldn't keep up.  However, do we know one way or the 
> other if all the common room entrances are guarded by portraits? I 
> know in the COS movie Slytherin's was not, but does the book 
> describe it at all?( Sorry, not sure where my copy is at the 
moment.)
> If this is the case it may give us a further clue as to the extent 
> of the abilities of the portraits.
> 
>  just a stray thought,
>     linlou

Now Ginger (yeah, again)
Good thought linlou!  Although I think Sir Cadogen might not have 
been one to take orders from prefects or heads of houses if he could 
at all help it ;)  You are right, though, that it does give us 
insights into the abilities of portraits.  Sir Cadogen definately had 
those abilities.

Pax et Lux, Ginger