[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts Dorms ?

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 79738

On 3 Sep 2003 at 6:24, jeffl1965 wrote:

>   Jeff:
>     This had figured, but I was curious as to if all the rooms were 
> this way, or not. I'm sure the house elves arranged things after the 
> sorting ceremony, but I had wondered if they did have an extra bed or 
> two in there incase of visitors or transfers. 

Yeah, I'd like to know as well - but the limited info we have just 
doesn't tell us what other rooms are like.

>    Jeff:
>     Yes, being too vague makes me more curious. Is there some sort of 
> storage room there? Are the loos on the same floors, or different 
> ones to prevent temptation? IIRC, the stairs to the girl's dorm turns 
> into a slide, if a boy tries to use it, but what about the boy's 
> stairwell?

Well, on the stairway/slide we do have information - from Order of the 
Phoenix.

'I wonder if Hermione's seen this yet?' Harry said, looking round at the 
door to the girls' dormitories.

'Let's go and tell her,' said Ron. He bounded forwards, pulled open the 
door and set off up the spiral staircase.  

He was on the sixth stair when there was a loud, wailing, klaxon-like 
sound and the steps melted together to make a long, smooth stone slide 
like a helter-skelter. There was a brief moment when Ron tried to keep 
running, arms working madly like windmills, then he toppled over 
backwards and shot down the newly created slide, coming to rest on his 
back at Harry's feet.  

'Er - I don't think we're allowed in the girls' dormitories,' said 
Harry, pulling Ron to his feet and trying not to laugh.  

Two fourth-year girls came zooming gleefully down the stone slide. 
'Oooh, who tried to get upstairs?' they giggled happily, leaping to 
their feet and ogling Harry and Ron.  

'Me,' said Ron, who was still rather dishevelled. 'I didn't realise that 
would happen. It's not fair!' he added to Harry, as the girls headed off 
for the portrait hole, still giggling madly. 'Hermione's allowed in our 
dormitory, how come we're not allowed -?'  

'Well, it's an old-fashioned rule,' said Hermione, who had just slid 
neatly on to a rug in front of them and was now getting to her feet, 
'but it says in Hogwarts: A History, that the founders thought boys were 
less trustworthy than girls. Anyway, why were you trying to get in 
there?'  
 
>     Well, good guesses, imho. I like you layout. My purpose for 
> asking more questions is to get a general idea about what the others 
> think. I think the map is great, and will certainly help a lot for 
> fanficts, and for helping readers visualize the layout of the castle 
> better. ;)

Soon be updated as well - hopefully this weekend. I just bought a whole 
new CD of mapping symbols for my program last night, some of which will 
be very useful.

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