Tonks

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 171859

lizzyben wrote:
> <snip>
> Looking at it from Draco's POV, he's mostly thinking about keeping
Harry, Snape & DD from figuring out his plan. He doesn't know (or
care) about Trelawney's sherry hiding. Isn't it interesting that
Trelawney was able to enter the ROR while Draco was there, yet Harry
could not? Seems like females could enter the room. <snip>

Carol responds:
But Draco isn't hiding in female form when he works on the cabinet.
Trelawney tells Harry that she heard a make voice "whooping."

I think that Trelawney can enter but Harry can't because Harry is
asking the wrong thing and/or because Draco has an additional unstated
requirement that no one who's looking for him can find him there. But
he probably specifically asks for the room where the Vanishing Cabinet
is stored or hidden. Trelawney probably asks for a place to hide her
sherry bottles. Notice that when Harry asks to find out what Malfoy is
doing, the room won't open, but when he asks for a place to hide his
book after Snape threatens to confiscate it, he gets exactly that
version of the room. In fact, JKR gives us a tiny clue as he passes
the broken Vanishing Cabinet in his search for a hiding place.

I don't know how clear this post is, but I think the fact that both
Trelawney and Harry would looking for a place to hide something and
both ended up in the room with the Vanishing Cabinet is the answer to
the riddle. They're in the version of the room that's used for hiding
forbidden objects or storing useless ones.

Carol, begging the List Elves to ban spoilers altogether now!