The Map (Blocked Passage)

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 98217


 "Chelle":
> > And concerning the twins: they still had 2 years left at the 
school,
> > wouldn't they want the map? Why did they use the other passage 
> > rather than the one to the Candy Store? Where did it end?
> 

Finwitch:

I'd guess, Zonko's prank store! Where else would these two pranksters 
MOST want to go? So, um, they're blocked from getting to Zonko's; 
They have their Owls; they want to start their own prank-shop; Yes- I 
think they simply decided it was time to give the map ahead. (and 
besides, they have a good heart - they wanted to grant Harry the 
opportunity he didn't have due to having lost his parents). Besides, 
maybe they discussed with the map and Wormtail,Moony,Padfoot&Prongs 
*told* them to give it ahead to Harry... (and it's even possible that 
Fred&George made a copy of their own! Not that they'd tell Harry 
that, of course).
 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> You forgot one other significant mention of the Passageway Behind 
the
> Mirror on the Fourth Floor. Sirius mentions it to Harry when Harry 
is
> trying to find a place to hold the DA meetings. 
> 
> I've always had a feeling that there was or would eventually be
> something significant about the passageway. 

Finwitch:

Maybe, maybe not. We do know it was large (considering Sirius 
suggested it for DA), and that Fred&George say it's all caved in. I 
think that it'd take quite a lot to get something that large to 
get 'caved in' - what happened to it? Is that event somehow keyed to 
why the Twins stopped using it? Were they, perhaps, on their way when 
the roof fell in?

I wonder, did it have anything to do with how, on the passageway to 
Chamber of Secrets, roof falls in and blocks both Ron and Lockhart 
from it!

> bboy_mn:
> Too many mysteries and only two books left.

Finwitch:

Yes - but they get bigger and bigger - and although all can't be 
revealed, there's always fanfic! (though I hope Rowling will publish 
her notes after the 7th book!)

Finwitch