Magical Rooms

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 53791

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, GulPlum <hp at p...> wrote:
>  At 03:57 14/03/03 , Steve wrote:
>  Besides, if JKR's track record is anything to go by, an inherently 
> magical 
>  room (which has, inter alia, the ability to disappear) is hardly 
> one which 
>  will surprise us with its magical properties. A mundane room with 
>  undiscovered characteristics is far more likely.
 
 A "mundane" room with magical properties Harry hasn't discovered.
Any room in Hogwarts can have magical properties Harry hasn't 
discovered yet, and I think they all or most DO.
 
1) Owlery?

Well, it does stand out in GoF - Harry's forbidden to go "even to 
Owlery" - and he runs into F&G on his way to post a letter to Sirius. 
He might explore it if he was given a detention-duty to clean it.
 
2) Dumbledore's office?
Pensieve scene, Sorting Hat, Gryffindor's Sword... what else does 
Dumbledore have there? Will Dumbledore show Harry how he doesn't 
really need the map, because of something in the OFFICE...
 
3) The room used to prepare Harry for the maze?

At least that's just a room mentioned - but who knows why it was 
empty...
 
4) Boy's dormitory in Gryffindor Tower?
Something goes under Harry's bed and he goes to get it and finds 
something odd... (wand rolled underneath? Neville's toad was on loose 
again, Neville went under bed to catch it - and disappeared! - A 
secret corridor that was collapsed according to the twins, but the 
collapse was just an illusion...)

5) Myrtle's toilet/Chamber of Secrets? Maybe there's more to it than 
the 
 basilisk?
 
6) Divination Classroom - Trelawney *never* leaves it mundane 
 matters "cloud her vision", and yet she knows everything! Her "I'd 
 never make that unlikely prediction" indicates that her usual 
 predictions has to do with what is likely to happen - like that 
 Neville will drop the tea-cup, but how did she *know* of Neville's 
 clumsiness? How did she know to tell that Hermione's a book-worm 
with 
 no Sight and leaving them before certain date? NOT from other 
 teachers as she's a loner. All her predictions (apart from the fact 
 that no one has died yet, but they're mortals so they *will*) have 
 become true! Since she doesn't have true vision and she never leaves 
 the tower, how does she know??? I think it's the *divination* room!
 
7) I don't think kitchen -- how'd Harry ever manage to explore it 
with all those elves asking if he'd like some tea?

8) the closet where Rita Skeeter Interviewed Harry.
Why did Rita choose THAT place? Does it have something magical that 
helps writers?
 
Divination Classroom or the pot-collection/I-give-you-your-need 
room... Though finding something under his bed would be nice...

-- Finwitch