[HPforGrownups] Re: A sandwich

[Jane "Panhandle" Penhaligon]

No: HPFGUIDX 178661

Panhandle:

A couple of points lead to me think Harry's bed is there. 

First, based on my reading of the books, the students room with their
classmates of the same gender year after year.  And, after throwing out all
the muggle born students, I can't imagine there are more 7th year male
Gryffindors than the five students that have been rooming together since the
first year.

Second, and more importantly though, is McGonagall's statement in DH,
Chapter 30, in her conversation with Amycus Carrow in the Ravenclaw common
room:  "Potter belongs in my house!"  Not belonged, but belongs. And as
Minerva is still the Gryffindor head, I have no doubt that Harry's room is
ready and waiting.

Panhandle

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Jane Penhaligon
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> afn:
> The sandwich part was provocative and stood out, but what really
> stood out for me was that after a year of not being a Hogwarts
> student, Harry seemed to expect his old bed to be waiting for him.
> Since he wasn't enrolled that year, his old bed may have been re-
> assigned to someone else. Rather than running away from school, he
> purposely chose not to attend his 7th year there.  Who's to say an
> incoming student might have needed Harry's old bed?
> 
> Maybe classmates and old teachers were reluctant not to save a place
> for him or make it a sort of monument, this doesn't seem very
> practical. So much has been made (and is interesting) about Kreacher
> and the sandwich after the Battle of Hogwarts, but the idea Harry
> still had a place in his former dormitory is what struck me.  Am I
> missing something here?
>