Circular room on the cover

[siriuskase]

No: HPFGUIDX 54361

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "grace701" <grace701 at y...> wrote:
> 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

I'm with someone's mom who says it is a tower.  All the round rooms
that we've met so far are tower room, but I don't know if all towers
are round.  We don't know what shape the Owlery or the Astronomy
towers are for example.  In fact we know nothing at all about the
Astronomy tower other than it is the tallest part of the school.   

My favorite idea so far is that it is the Owlery.  For some reason,
Harry goes up there at night and there are no owls.  they've all gone
out to get a bite to eat I guess, Harry's never been up there at night
before, so he's never noticed that at night, it's lit with candles. 
Everytime he's been here before, he's been preoccupied with his
correspondence, but this time, it is so different that he looks at the
room itself.  And it does make sense that the Owlery would have doors
for the owls to get out.

sirius kase