[HPforGrownups] Re: A sandwich

[Pamela Rosen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178645

<Snipping a bit of Mus' point:>

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.

Pam, for whom nothing is too small, comments:

Remembering the amount of death there had just been at Hogwarts, coupled with the fact that there were no Muggle-borns at Hogwarts anymore (I'm not certain if half-bloods were still allowed to go) it seems to me there would be many fewer students at Hogwarts that year.  Therefore, it is entirely plausable that there were many empty beds, Harry's among them.  I can imagine that there would be no boy who would want to be caught sleeping in the bed that had been Harry's, for fear of looking like he was showing some small support of Harry to the new administration, and for fear of flaunting a belief that Harry was dead or run off to Harry's supporters in that room.

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