[HPforGrownups] Getting around Hogwarts

[manawydan]

No: HPFGUIDX 68410

redwoman06 asked:
>If McGonagall's office is in the first floor and the Gryfindor
>Common room is on the seventh, and presuming that her office is
>connected to her sleeping quarters. How do the students reach her as
>fast as they did?

and Sharana felt
>They exercise much more than this. Hogwarts is a big castle, they
>don't have elevators, they use stairs. I can't imagine a normal

My own thought is that just the sheer size of Hogwarts would mean that the
staircases aren't just normal staircases. Can't remember whether it's canon
or movie contamination that Hogwarts does sometimes rearrange its internal
geography. But we also have reference to some of the staircases being
affected by magic.

Plus the students might well have to travel long distances between classes -
from Hagrid's cottage in the grounds to Trelawney's tower, back to Snape's
dungeon, and then up to the roof at nightfall for Sinistra's astronomy
class. If the staircases were normal, they'd spend so much time walking that
there'd not be enough for classes.

So I think that you can accelerate yourself on staircases and actually get
between floors very quickly (possibly even end up in a different place
horizontally as well as vertically). Maybe only on authorised routes (like
Griffindor common room to the Head of House's office) but at least some of
the time.

In turn I could imagine Arthur Weasley marvelling at a muggle staircase:
"you know, you have to walk on _every step_!"

Cheers

Ffred

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