Attack on Hogwarts?

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No: HPFGUIDX 107404

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "gelite67" <gelite67 at y...> wrote:
> I didn't see this in the archives, so here goes?
> 
> What's the likelihood of an attack on Hogwarts in Book 6 or 7?  I 
> know Hogwarts is supposed to be well-protected, but so was 
> Gringotts.  There are a lot of secret ways into the school (maybe 
> even some that the Weasley twins didn't discover).  I don't believe 
> you can't Apparate into and out of the school just because it says so 
> in "Hogwarts, A History."  That would be precisely what the school 
> wanted everyone to believe.  
> 
> Hagrin told Harry in SS that when LV was recruiting and killing, 
> Hogwarts was one of the only safe places left, and that LV, "[d]idn't 
> dare try takin' the school, not just then anyway"  apparently because 
> LV feared DD.
> 
> I can see LV getting desperate enought to do it.  Eventually, his 
> desperation could overcome his fear. 


It has been considered before and the general consensus is that the 
chances are high, with different posters putting forward different
evidence/arguments. Dumbledore's Army frequently tops most
lists -  it must have an eventual function in the story arc.

Others, myself included, believe that the Chamber of Secrets still
has a part to play. It was Salazar's/Tom's/Voldy's cosy little nook in 
Hogwarts and since its name implies multiple secrets are hidden there
we expect it to take centre stage again. Voldy will come back, I think,
and it  won't be via Myrtle's bathroom.

There's more than one entrance, got to be. The Basilisk quite happily
toured the pipes in the school even before the Chamber was unsealed
by Ginny. All those pipes that Ron and Harry saw when sliding down
from the sink opening - they were *outside*  the sealed Chamber.
So how did the Basilisk access them? 

Tunnels to Hogsmeade, tunnels here, tunnels there; ideal for an
invading force. 

I'll be quite disappointed if Hogwarts remains unpenetrated and if
(when) it is I expect the showdown to happen in the Chamber.

Kneasy