A sandwich

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 178643

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" <eggplant107 at ...>
wrote:
>
> So the idea that Harry, the man who had just saved the entire world,
> thought he still had a place at Hogwarts seems strange to you. To
> answer your question, yes I believe you are missing something here.

Mus had thought about the same quibble:

For me, the issue wasn't about whether Harry didn't deserve to have a
decent night's rest in Hogwart's after saving the world - it was a
purely practical one: he hasn't been there throughout Year 7, and he
only ever had a place in the dormitory because he was a boarder at the
school.  When it was clear that he wasn't coming back, why should a
place be kept for him by the school administration?

It's a minor point for me, though, because there doesn't seem to be
anything in canon* to indicate that when you move from one year to
another, you move to a different dormitory (unlike a lot of school
stories) - by assumption, a given room is allocated to First Years
once it's been vacated by departing Seventh Years.  So an empty bed
(or two - Ron's would be empty too) doesn't seem too problematical.

*I'm open to correction from canon on this, of course.

Mus, for whom it's not about the sandwich.  Tea and biscuits, a nice
poached egg on toast or filet mignon would have been equally
problematical.