Chamber of Secrets

[coldsliversofglass]

No: HPFGUIDX 150837

coldsliversofglass:
> > Also, from the description, I imagined it as the sort of bathroom
> > students only use if they're absolutely desperate: the sort of
> > bathroom where one takes the time to go to the next floor to use
> > alternative facilities if at all possible. After all, this is the
> > bathroom students hide out in (Myrtle from Olive/Hermione hides in
> > there after Ron insults her in the hallway/Draco hides there too 
> > in HBP) when they want to avoid their classmates.

Magpie:
> Just to be accurate, Draco hides out in a different bathroom--the boy's 
> bathroom.  Myrtle is just going to see him there in that scene; it's not her 
> bathroom.  And now that I think of it...I'm not sure it's the one Hermione 
> hides in in PS/SS either.  Do we know that for sure?  Or does she just pick 
> a different one?  In CoS I think we're told the reason nobody goes to that 
> bathroom usually is that Myrtle is there.
 

coldsliversofglass:
Oops.  You're right about Myrtle meeting Draco in the boys' 
bathroom.  I was a bit confused about that in the first place, since 
I thought he couldn't have been in the girl's bathroom..  All these 
bathrooms have me confused: then again, people avoid asking me 
directions to place for a reason.

Anyhow, as far as Hermione, I think the bathroom is the same one, but 
it's a little bit confusing because of the question of floors and 
sometimes the book doesn't reveal straight out which floor the 
students are on after going up and down stairs(UK vs US).  

JK's Harry Potter and The Sorcerer's Stone (Chapter 10): The passage 
says that Harry and Ron begin to follow Percy upstairs, but change 
directions to follow the Hufflepuffs.  They duck off into a side 
passage in order to go off and find Hermione.  They note that Snape 
is heading towards the Third floor (so they can't be on that floor).  
I inferred, from that, that Ron and Harry were on the Second Floor 
(according to the HPLexicon, the stairs on the main floor lead up 
towards the Hufflepuff common room-seperate from the main stairs, 
apparently-so we know that the kids weren't on the main floor or the 
first floor since there's no mention of a bathroom there) and tried 
to lock the troll in Myrtle's bathroom (though I'm not sure where 
Myrtle is at this point). 

Most of the current students avoid the bathroom because Myrtle is 
there, but I just found it interesting that Myrtle chose to hide out 
in there.  I mean, that's where Myrtle hid when she avoiding Olivia, 
so I'm assuming that, when Myrtle was a student, it was just the sort 
of place that attracted the least amount of students.

coldsliversofglass