Many questions

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 105120

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "aggiepaddy" <aggie at r...> wrote:

Aggie:
> On the subject of the CoS someone mentioned (V v v sorry but I 
can't 
> find it now to acknowledge them) that the tunnel on the MM may be 
> linked to the chamber.  I agree. In PoA when F/G give H the map 
they 
> say that it was usable until the previous winter which puts it in 
the 
> yr of CoS.  I think they didn't come across the basilisk because 
the 
> chamber is multifacited. . .it is the chamber of secretS.  To 
access 
> the chamber that contained the basilisk you needed to speak 
> parseltongue, but there may be other chambers that don't have that 
> requirement.  I believe that one of these chambers is linked to 
HBP, 
> I'd go along with the idea that it's GG but feel it could be Seamus 
> too.

Geoff:
I have pasted below a section of message 90496 which discussed the 
question of the cave-in and any relevance to the Chamber of Secrets 
and which therefore may be of intrerest to the current discussion.

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Constance Vigilance:
> I think this
> fact was demonstrated when Ron's wand malfunction in the Chamber
> tunnel FAR below Hogwarts was able to cause a cave-in and block the
> roomy passageway way up on the 4th floor. This is the secret
> passageway that the twins and Sirius mention. I think this is good
> evidence that at least those two passageways are related. I think
> most or all of them are related - and many of them lead out.

Geoff:
I must be being a bit thick but where did that idea come from?

According to canon, (Fred speaking)....

"'Don't bother with the one behind the mirror on the fourth floor. We
used it until last winter but it's caved in - completely blocked.'"

(POA "The Marauder's Map" p.144 UK edition)

This is in the November of 1993. So the cave-in was in the winter of
1992. but Harry's confrontation with the basilisk was in the summer
of '93 at the end of his second year as the following shows...

"Ten minutes into the class, Professor McGonagall told them that
their exams would start on the first of June, one week from today."

(COS "The Chamber of Secrets" p.210 UK edition)

And Ginny was taken into the chamber three days before this date 
(i.e. 29th May).

"Three days before their first exam, Professor McGonagall made
 another announcement at breakfast."

(p.211 same chapter)
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