Book Two Discoveries - Collapsed tunnel

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 112593

Karen said
"This may have been discused but I think it will play an important 
part in the "attack on Hogwarts".

In CoS, Lockhart's failed memory charm collapses the ceiling of the 
tunnel to the chamber of secrets.

In POA, George and Fred tell Harry that one of the secret passages to 
Hogsmead was good until last year when it collapsed.

IMO these are the same or connecting tunnel and Voldemort and the DEs 
will use them to invade Hogwarts."

DuffyPoo:
The problem is the tunnel collapses at the wrong time.  In PoA F&G say "we used it until last winter, but it's caved in -- completely blocked."  The tunnel Lockhart collapsed with his memory charm wouldn't have happened until May 29th (according to the Lexicon).  I would have said sometime in June, but whichever is the case (the Lexicon does dates way better than I do) it certainly didn't happen in winter.

However, I do think there is something fishy about the tunnel collapse (the one behind the mirror on the fourth floor), the fact that it collapsed 'last winter,' and that 'last winter' was the Christmas holidays that Draco Malfoy stayed at Hogwarts.  What was Malfoy, Sr doing that kept Draco at school? The previous Christmas Draco had rubbed Harry's nose in the fact that he had no home to go to so had to stay at school for Christmas.  That tunnel, at one time, went from the fourth floor to somewhere (we don't know where) in Hogsmeade.  Does it now go from Hogsmeade and connect to the tunnel in the Chamber of Secrets?  It is still a way for the DE's to get into the School.




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