Keeper of the Keys

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No: HPFGUIDX 113266

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "arrowsmithbt" 
<arrowsmithbt at b...> wrote:

> Kneasy:
> I wonder. Check the frontispiece of QTTA. Two  of the 'due back' 
dates
> fall in August -  the school  holidays. Even more significantly 
the dates are
> consecutive - so the book must have been returned and then taken 
out
> again during the holiday period. The library at least is open.

Those dates aren't correct. According to Rowling in an interview, 
the only one at Hogwarts during summer holidays is Filch. One way to 
excuse the dates on the library book is that this is a special 
edition created for Muggles, so the information for things like that 
library card slip were just made up by Dumbledore for the edition. 
But Rowling said no one was there during the break.



> I'm still wondering if 'Keys' means more than we generally assume.

Here's another thought. Why do the keys need a keeper? Could it be 
that the keys to Hogwarts, like the doors, are sentient? Perhaps 
they are just another magical "creature" that Hagrid must look 
after. I wonder what you feed a ring of keys?

Steve