Circular room on the cover
GKJPO
kristen at sanderson-web.com
Wed Mar 26 01:59:10 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 54324
As I was going through GoF (for the gagillionth time) last night, the
word "circular" caught my eye. There's been a lot of speculation on
which is the special room that Harry doesn't know the magical
properties of yet and there's a picture of a room on the American
version of the cover. Are they the same? I don't know, but it
looked to me like the room on the cover is circular, so I started
going back through and identifying the circular rooms mentioned in
the book. I found the following:
- The Gryffindor common room
- Dumbledore's office
- The Divination classroom (the room, the tables and the trapdoor are
circular)
I looked back through the references to these rooms and noted that
none of them mentioned having other doors in them (like you see on
the cover) or candles there on a regular basis though I would guess
that the common room would have the doors to the dormitories.
I think each of these rooms has great possibilities. The common room
and Dumbledore's office have connections to Godric Gryffindor and if
the Chamber of Secrets is any indication, Godric will also have left
behind a magical area he created. These two places seem like the
most likely candidates. The Divination classroom is also a very
interesting place for Harry as he always seems to have visions or
encounter others having visions there. I think it may be one of
these rooms on the cover.
Another point of interest: there are no circular references to the
room behind the Great Hall where Harry goes in Book 4 (after being
chosen and to greet the Weasleys. This room has been suggested as a
special place, but I found the description other than the mention of
the witch Violet to be lacking. A scant description to me means that
the room has no special meaning as JKR seems to put special effort
into describing and repeating several times throughout the books
areas that are important.
The other place I investigated was the room where the Deathday party
was held. This room had the candles for the party, but no circular
properties.
Does anyone else have thoughts on which room is on the cover?
Kristen
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