Boggarts & the Passage to Honeydukes

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 143081

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.

Ceridwen:
I'll try another take on this one, though there have been a lot of good 
guesses already:

Students made it to get into the candy shop, or through the candy shop 
into Hogsmeade and out of Hogwarts.

Which makes me wonder if any of the DEs had ever used it as children?  
I doubt if the Marauders made the passage, I got the impression it was 
one they found and mapped.  So, when was it made?  Who used it 
originally?  Did others use it after that?  When did it stop being 
used, if it ever had been, by other than the Marauders?

Ceridwen.