Gryffindor Staircase

[fourjays22]

No: HPFGUIDX 82996

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Arya" <dequardo at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "fourjays22" 
<jayandjay22 at h...> 
> wrote:
> > BIG SNIP
> > 
> > So, thoughts on the role of the bewitched staircase ---SNIP...?
> 
> I think a swift summon of a broomstick gets you free access to the 
> girls' dorm of your choice.  You can get there and avoid stepping 
> foot ont he staircase.  Damn, just gave a away a plot device for my 
> fanfic....

I pictured the bewitchment more broadly -- as forbidding boys/men 
from ascending to the dorm regardless of ascension method, lol.  I 
assumed if boys were deemed untrustworthy, it wasn't simply a matter 
of them not being able to walk the stairs -- they would actually be 
prevented from making the journey to the girls dorm.   

But a literal reading of canon points only to the stairs themselves 
being bewitched, in which case a broom would suffice.  I'll be 
interested to see what transpires here.

Julie