The Map (Blocked Passage)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 98253

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "probonoprobono" <probono at r...> 
wrote:
> > 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?

Geoff:
But we don't know whereabouts the fall was. Is the passage ran to 
Hogsmeade, then it was a very long one. Sirius remarks that it was 
roomy so there still may be  plenty of space at the school end.


Finwitch:
> > 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!
> 
> Probono:
> 
> I just always assumed that these 2 passages were connected somehow 
> and both led to the chamber. After the collapse there is another 
> door that Harry has to get through using parseltongue. Fred and 
> George wouldn't be able to get into the chamber or probably even 
> recognize the solid wall as a door to a chamber. I just figured the 
> other passage runs past the chamber and onto Hogsmeade.

Geoff:
Can I point you to a reply which I wrote in message 90496 on this 
very point (save me cutting and pasting).