Is Hogwarts So Safe? / The Chamber Pot/Mirror/Requirement Room

[Krystol Berry]

No: HPFGUIDX 86523

Linnea wrote:

I have read numerous accounts here that reiterate DDs claim that
Hogwarts provides protection for those who are within its walls.
Codswallop, I say.

Sure there are some protections but hey, LV lived there in a turban
and a book. Death Eaters visit. (Malfoy, the Executioner,Karkarov...)
The Azkaban guards swarmed a school function and attacked Harry right
on the grounds by the lake.

Looks to me to be the most dangerous place on Earth one could be,
especially while Harry and DD are there.

And don't be too sure about that anti-apparition thing. Remember the
ship coming out of the lake? Maybe not apparition per se but pretty close.
And the Chamber of Secrets, a special place for the heir of Slytherin,
is under the lake with a nice handy tunnel right into a Hogwarts
toilet. Should be a simple matter for LV to apparate there.
There has never been any mention of DD destroying the Chamber or
access to it and I find that ominous.

<minor snippage>

Pixieberry replies:

Perhaps the "protection" only works on uninvited threats.  LV hitched a ride
in on Quirrel, who was expected to come to Hogwarts, the Death Eaters you
mentioned all had permission to be on the grounds as did the Dementors, and
the Durmstrang ship certainly arrived by invitation for the Triwizard
Tournament.  The Chamber is a little trickier...but if Salazar Slytherin
created it, he was a "legal" resident of Hogwarts at the time, as was Tom
Riddle when he opened it the first time.

Interesting thought about DD not destroying the Chamber...wonder if that'll
come to play in future books....

:)
Pixieberry   (tip-toeing quietly out of Lurkdom...)