Ginny (was Re: Why it took Percy so long to be with the good guys.)

[Bruce Mull]

No: HPFGUIDX 192098

> Pippin:
> <snip> But that brings up something I never thought of before --
Draco and the Inquisitorial Squad also knew that the DA had used
the room of requirement as their hideout in OOP.  They were on
> their way with Umbridge when Harry got Dobby's warning.

> Yet none of them seem to have told the Carrows where they should
be hunting. If they had, it wouldn't have been much use for Neville
to instruct the Room not to admit any Carrow supporters. No DA
members would have been able to enter if the Carrows had blocked
> off the corridor or set up an ambush for them.

> So the hideout remained unsuspected for two weeks as the DA
reassembled in DH  not least  because Draco and the other members
> of the Inquisitorial Squad didn't give it away.


Bruce:
Good point. I hadn't thought about the fact that the Inquisitorial
Squad knew what corridor the Room of Requirement was on. I know
Crabbe and Goyle aren't bright enough to remember, but that gives
more support to the Draco having second thoughts argument.


Dr Bruce P. Mull
Professor of Computer Science
Professor of Mathematics