Boggarts & the Passage to Honeydukes

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No: HPFGUIDX 143067

>CH3ed:

>4. And how did Ron know to run breathlessly into Snape's office to 
>tell Snape
>that the Marauders' Map was a toy he got from Zonko's and bailed 
Harry >out?
>Harry was caught by Snape just after he cleared the hidden passage. 
>Ron shouldn't have known where Harry went, ay?

Orna:
That's the only one, I can offer some good explanation. The incident 
was with Malfoy, therefore Ron knew, Malfoy would run to Snape. And 
so he ran to his office. I don't think he meant the marauder's map, 
when he said he go it from Zonko – he didn't say "the map", he 
referred to "it", and I think he meant all the sweeties they bought 
this very day. After all Snape did ask Harry about it, some minutes 
before, and Ron might have figured out for himself, that Harry 
needed some backup to explain their presence in his pockets.  Harry 
was just lucky that Lupin said the map was a Zonko product, so it 
cleared him also about the map. 
(Not that Snape believed, of course).

>CH3ed:
>GH. So... had Lupin been correct and the first boggart in the staff 
>room turned
>into LV when it saw Harry, would the LV-boggart be able to do magic?

Orna:
This one, I can try – not sure about it.
I don't think so. The light going out, and the rehearing of his 
parent's death, are things Harry could imagine, like Molly could 
imagine her family being dead, and her fears where consolidated in 
an image of them lying flat on the floor. I don't think the 
boggart "does" these things in a real sense. So a LV could be 
imagined to do magic, kill and crucio people – but it would happen 
to solid imaginations of things – not really, as far as I understand 
Boggarts.

>CH3ed:
>3. Why is there a secret passage from Hogwarts to Honeydukes' 
cellar? >I guess we
>won't hear any story about it as it doesn't seem significant. I'm 
just >curious
>of the story behind it.

Orna:
I think it's a good question, especially, as we are all the time 
told, that Hogwarts is a very safe and magically protected place. 
And here is a secret passage, even Snape and Filch don't know about; 
open to every other visitor
But I'm willing to take it, that JKR 
just needed it for the story, not much mystery attached to it. 
Perhaps the elves use it to bring food from Hogsmeade to the castle.


Orna, who  hasn't got a clue to what boggarts look like in the 
drawer