another flint?

jomamaumd <bobbippon@hotmail.com> bobbippon at hotmail.com
Tue Jan 21 01:21:55 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 50216

Don't know if this has been discussed yet, but I think JKR slipped up 
in the location of Myrtle's bathroom.

Hermione says at the Deathday Party (COS p.132, American paperback):
"She haunts one of the toilets in the girls' bathroom on the first 
floor."

Then, only 6 pages later, "Harry hurtled around the second floor, Ron 
and Hermione panting behind him, not stopping until they turned a 
corner in to the last, deserted passage."  This passage was the one 
in which the first attack occurred, so obviously this happened on the 
second floor.  

But in the next chapter, when Ron remarks about the door just next to 
the scene of the attack, Hermione states "That's Moaning Myrtle's 
place."

Clearly, Moaning Myrtle's bathroom has to be on the second floor next 
to the scene of the attack, as the water trail came from there - so 
the location given on page 132 must be a flint.  
- jomama







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