The Twins - Almost Right

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 141203

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ch3ed" <ch3ed at y...> wrote:
> I don't think the twins knew about the monster either, but I 
> wonder if they knew about the passage that led to the Chamber. When 
> they gave Harry the Marauders' Map to sneak out to Hogsmeade there 
> were 5 tunnels. Filch knows about 3 and 1 'caved in' the year 
> before, leaving the one that goes to Honeydukes' cellar that Harry  
> used. I wonder if the caved in tunnel wasn't the one that led to  
> the chamber.... it caved in the same year Harry rescued Ginny from  
> there (and Lockhart had his memory wiped in that failed spell).
> 
> CH3ed

Geoff:
This was discussed at some length a good while ago, in February last 
year to be exact. The following quote is from a reply I posted as 
message 90496:

<quote>
Constance Vigilance:
> I think this
> fact was demonstrated when Ron's wand malfunction in the Chamber
> tunnel FAR below Hogwarts was able to cause a cave-in and block the
> roomy passageway way up on the 4th floor. This is the secret
> passageway that the twins and Sirius mention. I think this is good
> evidence that at least those two passageways are related. I think
> most or all of them are related - and many of them lead out.
>

Geoff:
I must be being a bit thick but where did that idea come from?

According to canon, Fred speaking....

"'Don't bother with the one behind the mirror on the fourth floor. We
used it until last winter but it's caved in - completely blocked.'"

(POA "The Marauder's Map" p.144 UK edition)

This is in the November of 1993. So the cave-in was in the winter of
1992. but Harry's confrontation with the basilisk was in the summer
of '93 at the end of his second year.

"Ten minutes into the class, Professor McGonagall told them that
their exams would start on the first of June, one week from today."

(COS "The Chamber of Secrets" p.210 UK edition)

And Ginny was taken into the chamber three days before this date
(i.e. 29th May).

"Three days before their first exam, Professor McGonagall made
another announcement at breakfast."

(p.211 same chapter)
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