Teen Pregnancy

[Sheila Douglas]

No: HPFGUIDX 189303

> Aleta:
> Regarding boys in girls' dorms and vice versa: I can't remember
> right off which book it is (5th perhaps?) but Ron tries to go
> see Hermione in her dorm room and the stairs instantly turn
> into a steep incline that slides him back to the common room.
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Marianne:
I believe it was in the OOTP. It was one of Umbridge's new decrees
about no more than two students together at a time. Ron runs to
tell Hermione and that's when the stairs turn.
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sile_dubhghlase:
Marianne is correct. In OotP, Chapter 17 Educational Decree
Number Twenty-four, pages 351-53 (Scholastic) or pages 313-15
(Bloomsbury), the decree came out after the initial meeting
of what would become the DA at the Hog's Head. ED24 prohibited
student organizations not known to or sanctioned by the High
Inquisitor. Ron and Harry had been reading about it and Ron,
wondering if Hermione was aware of it, decided they should
tell her. He dashed up the stairs toward the girls' dorms
and set off an alarm. The staircase turned into a slide,
prohibiting Ron from reaching his destination.