Room of Requirements and the discovery of the DA

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Peggy Kern said: 
   
  Hi, all. I'm rereading Order of the Phoenix, and noticed something that 
doesn't seem logical to me. After the first DA meeting, when they left the 
Room of Requirement, it's mentioned that the door turns back into part of 
the wall when they leave. But after they've been warned by Dobby and they 
all run out of the room, the door is obviously still there, because Pansy 
goes in and finds the list of DA members. Why didn't the door disappear 
when they left this time?
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  DA Jones Here:
   
  Pansy saw the door closing and ran in just before it closed perhaps. We don't know how quickly it closes. Or perhaps because Marietta was still standing outside. 
   
  Or Harry has to comciously close the room. He didn't this time because he panicked. You might just have to suspend your disbelief on this one  
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  Peggy kern:
   
   Also, if Cho's friend was off telling Umbridge 
about the group, didn't they realize she was missing and wonder why? She 
obviously couldn't have been at the meeting with "sneak" written on her 
face. Any ideas?
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  Marietta is the shy, quiet friend of a boisterous popular girl. To be frank she is never noticed. I think she might have one line in OOP. There are also about 28 members. It might be easy to miss one. I don't remember if Harry or Hermione take attendence. But Marietta could have easily given Cho an excuse. She's a Ravenclaw, so she could have told Marietta she wanted to study. Or that she was sick. Cho seemed to only want Marietta to come for moral support and seemed to know that Marietta was trepiditious about the meetings, so she wouldn't have pushed hard for Marietta to come. Especially since she didn't need her help facing Harry anymore. Her swan patronus just befofre they are discovered is perhaps proof that she might finally be over her grief.
   
  There are all sorts of reasons you could speculate on. This is why HP stuff is fun.
   
  The sneak mark IIRC didn't occur untill after she began talking to Umbridge. So that wasn't a problem. I'll always wonder though why JKR didn't go for the obvious inside joke and have her marked with "snitch" instead of "sneak." Sneak doesn't even fit the situation.
   
  Da Jones
     

       
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