Circular room on the cover

[grace701]

No: HPFGUIDX 54358

GKJPO wrote:
> 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 agree, the room is circular and it seems to me that it is in a 
tower because I see the top of the page as though the room is rising 
up and boards going up as well.  (Even my mother said right away 
it's a tower.)  The Gryffindor common room is a tower.  So is the 
Astronomy room.  Is Trelawney's class in a tower?  We don't know 
anything about the Astronomy room so it may contain 3 doors.  The 
Gryffindor Common Room has three doors: one to the girls' 
dormitories, another to the boys' and the entrance to the common 
room.  This is all we know of so far about the common room.  Unless 
there's a hidden door conveniently behind a picture which is in 
between both doors.  Do we know of anything in between these two 
doors?  Are the two doors next to each other?  (Shame my memory is 
bad).  Why would there be candles in the Gryffindor Common Room? 
Maybe it's not the common room.

How about this idea?  Harry sees the hidden door behind the picture 
and goes up through it, finding a secret magical room that is filled 
of candles and has three doors leading to who knows where.

Maybe what JKR meant by Harry discovering magical properties to a 
room is that he will discover that the room is connect to another 
magical room/world?

Greicy