A child is, by definition, WRONG

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 120067



I snipped Geoff's nice description of the events, because my comment
has to do with the very beginning of it.

Harry and Ron went to the staff room to tell McGonagall what they knew
about the Chamber of Secrets. Quite naturally, when they heard the
announcement, they hid in a cupboard. But then they heard that Ginny
had been taken to the CoS, and Lockhart was sent to look for her.
Harry and Ron then went back to their dormitory, and it took them
quite a while to figure out that maybe they could tell Lockhart what
they knew.

My question is : since they had come to the staffroom to explain about
the CoS in the first place, why didn't they come out of their cupboard
when they heard the news about Ginny? They knew where the entrance to
the Chamber was, they knew what the monster was, and yet they kept all
that secret! Here they were, with all the teachers assembled in one
place and a very strong incentive to do something, and yet they didn't
do *anything*. This is quite out of character for Harry, IMO.

Del