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

[dorothy dankanyin]

No: HPFGUIDX 192110


From: "Geoff" <geoffbannister123 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 2:43 AM


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sandra Lynn <cresorchid at ...> wrote:

Bart:
> > Of course, that also brings up the question: why didn't Draco just
> > ask the room to create a passage that the DE's could use to invade
> > Hogwarts?

Crescent:
> Well, for one thing you needed to know that the room was that
> powerful. Neville discovered it by chance when he was desperate
> and using the room already. Draco might have been desperate, but
> he wasn't in the room or looking for the room when he was thinking
> that so he never asked the room to allow the DE's to enter. For
> all we know, the room may have created a door they could enter
> through but Draco wasn't looking at or for that door and never
> realized what it was when he was fixing the vanishing cabinet.

Geoff:
You're confusing the original canon with the film version. Neville didn't
discover the Room. If I may repost a piece of canon I quoted about the
beginning of this month, part of a conversation between Harry and Dobby:

`"I need to find a place where twenty-eight people can practise Defence
Against the Dark Arts without being discovered by any of the teachers."

"Dobby knows the perfect place, sir!" he said happily. "Dobby heard tell
of it from the other house-elves when he came to Hogwarts, sir. It is
known by us as the Come and Go Room, sir, or else the Room of
Requirement!"

Why?" said Harry curiously.

"Because it is a room that a person can only enter," said Dobby seriously,
"when they have real need of it. Dobby has used it. and Dobby knows
that Mr. Filch has found extra cleaning materials there."

."How many people know about it?" said Harry, sitting up straighter in his
chair.

"Very few, sir. Mostly people stumble across it when they needs it but often
they never finds it again."'

(OOTP "Dumbledore's Army" p.343 UK edition)

The film version is one of those scenes when I ask myself "Why did they
change it? What's wrong with the original story?"


Dorothy:
  Geoff,
  I often wonder and comment to anyone who'll listen the very same thing. 
The films veered away from the original story in many ways that make no 
sense, either cinematically or for understanding the ideas of the author. 
Who knows why the films were so "off"?  I have no idea either.
  Think peace,
    Dorothy