COS Burning Question

[ratalman]

No: HPFGUIDX 78145

Bohcoo said:
How did Professor McGonagall know it was Ginny who had been 
taken nto the Chamber? 

No one saw it happen or they would have known where the 
entrance to the Chamber was. 

Obviously no head count was done, or Ron and Harry would 
have seemed to be missing too as they were hiding in the 
teacher's cloak room.

Ginger said:
"So I made Ginny write her own farewell on the wall and come 
down here to wait."

As McG correctly told the staff that it was Ginny in the chamber, I 
guess we can figure that Ginny signed the note.  (Or wall, as the 
case may be)  

What I want to know now, is what did that note say?  But, alas, 
we are not told.

Now me:

I think that the "farewell note" is the message that was written on 
the wall:  "The Heir of Slytherin," said Professor McGonagall, who 
was very white, "left another message.  Right underneath the first 
one.  'Her skeleton will lie in the Chamber forever.' "(p. 293, US 
paper)  I doubt that she signed it, but who knows?

The fact that the message says "Her skeleton" means that there 
could well have been a head count among the female students, 
and that Ginny was the only female that turned up missing.  Ron 
and Harry, hidden in the cloak closet would not, therefore, be an 
issue.

Robyn