Magical Rooms

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 53765

 GulPlum wrote:


>The exact quote was "... mentioned in book 
>four which has certain magical properties Harry hasn't discovered 
>yet."
 
>The impression I get from that is that it's not the room which 
>hasn't discovered yet, but its properties. Harry has never seen the 
>camber pot room, and indeed even Dumbledore says he's been unable 
to find it again. JKR is usually very deliberate in the kind of 
>language she uses, and if she'd said "a room Harry heard 
>about ...", or " a magical room", then I'd agree with you. But the 
>way I read the comment, it's a mundane room which Harry has visited 
>but whose properties he hasn't explored.
> 
> I'm not insisting that I'm necessarily right, but I find any other 
> explanation far more difficult to accept.


Gul, I say you are right.  I, too, read that quote that way.  What 
we have to look at here is this part: "has certain magical 
properties Harry hasn't discovered *yet* (my emphasis).  In order 
for it to be "yet" he has to have already been inside the room and 
discovered other minute magical properties.  In this case, it would 
be all rooms because they seem to all have moving pictures, which in 
my book are magical properties and fireplaces where people can 
firetalk.  So we're back at one, but since this is fun, I'll make a 
suggestion.  If anything, I'd say it's the Gryffindor common room.  
Why?  Well because I can just picture Harry, Ron and/or Hermione 
saying, "It was right in front of our faces all this time!  Why 
didn't we notice it before?!"  That's why.  Lame, I know, but I say 
Gryffindor Common Room.  Steve, please add it to the list. ;)

Greicy