Chapter 27 Discussion / Why LV is bad / How TMR found the CoS / Cup Soul Bit

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 184182

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
 
> Anyway, it appears that the RoR provided broomsticks twice, once on
> request from Ron and once, by apparent coincidence or luck or in
> answer to a silent request by Harry.


zanooda:

This is an interesting thought. I didn't think before that Ron or 
Harry asked the RoR for the brooms. The brooms were already in the 
RoR when HRH were brought in by Neville - Harry sees a few propped 
against the wall as he enters. I suppose the room provided these 
brooms after some boys who liked flying (Seamus, Michael Corner) came 
to hide there. Ron obviously borrowed one of those brooms to get into 
the Chamber. 

I also didn't think that Harry asked for the brooms. I assumed they 
were just part of the junk assembled the RoR and Harry saw them by 
accident. But maybe you are right and Harry subconsciously wished for 
a broom that would be a natural way for him to escape.


> Carol wrote:
 
> And by "badly thought out," I mean both by the characters (who 
> abandon their broom and Basilisk fangs in any case) and by JKR.


zanooda:

I don't think they abandonned the fangs. After dropping them to kiss 
in the RoR :-), Ron and Hermione picked them up (625-626). I don't 
know what they did with them, but I hope Hermione summonned some 
container to put them in, just as you suggested, and then hid them in 
her bag. If HRH just left the fangs in the RoR, they are probably 
lost (destroyed or just unaccessible), but who needs them now :-)?