Magical Room and Bill Weasley

[Brittany]

No: HPFGUIDX 53734

Elisabeth wrote:
>  I know this has been discussed previously, but I would like to 
hear 
>  some thoughts on the room at Hogwarts that JK Rowling mentioned 
in 
>  an interview that has "magical properties."  The room, as I 
>  understand it, is mentioned in GoF, but we don't yet know its 
>  importance.  
>  
>  I'm curious about the room at the end of the Great Hall that the 
4 
>  competitors of the Triwizard Tournament enter...I was re-reading 
>  GoF, and Bill Weasley makes a comment on having been in the room 
5 
>  years previously.  Could this be the room Rowling mentioned?  And 
>  what do you think its importance might be?  Does it have an  
> importance at all?  Surely Bill's comment will be followed up 
>  in a later book!
 

Ok, my thoughts now.  Actually, I have always thought that 
antechamber to be the room in which Rowling was talking about, but 
just for the record, Bill didn't say he hadn't been in that room for 
five years, he said he hadn't visited Hogwarts in five years.  
Anyway, back to the speculating, we know nothing about that room, 
and it is mentioned several times.  Any reason Dumbledore chooses 
the champions to wait in that particular room, besides the fact that 
it's the closest off the Great Hall, no idea.  But Vi, the Fat 
Lady's friend is in there, and several scenes occur in there.  

There is also an antechamber off the entrance hall that I wonder 
about (the room in which Harry waits as a first year with the other 
first years before they are brought into be sorted - where they 
first see the ghosts).  That room has never been mentioned again.  
But I don't have any real proof except that both rooms, especially 
the one off the Great Hall, seem to hold some significance, well 
maybe not the one off the entrance hall all that much, but you get 
the picture.  Bill just wasn't talking about the room in which he 
was in particularly, so I can't use that as evidence.


Elisabeth wrote:
>  And while we're on the subject of Bill Weasley, does anyone else 
>  think he might play a larger role in the books to come?  When I 
re-
>  read the fourth book, I just noticed how much he is mentioned and 
>  how much fun he is.  Rowling connects him to Rita Skeeter, she 
goes 
>  on and on about his long hair, his presence in the infirmary at 
the 
>  end...am I going crazy, or does he stand out?


Bill does seem important, he is mentioned more than Charlie, or even 
Percy, in book four, and he's the one that goes off to contact his 
father for Dumbledore at the end.  As for the relationship with 
Fleur theory, I think it would be amusing to see Ron's reaction, but 
other than that I don't really care either way.  I do honestly 
believe Bill will show up again, along with all the other Weasleys, 
however.

Brittany, who rather thought Bill was a cool character