On Tue, 06 February 2001, "Rita Winston" wrote:

> [snip] But other people firmly stated that if H, L, and P had another roommate, we would have heard SOMETHING about her by now.

Actually, I *have* figured out that there are two more Gryffindor girls in their year that we haven't been introduced to yet.

I've been rereading PoA (just got my UK adult cover paperback, and I've been reading it to spot the differences between it and the US version - but that's neither here nor there at the moment.)  And the scene with Lupin and the boggart in the wardrobe is very telling.  Lupin wants all the students to have a go, and the scene runs as follows:

1 - Neville - Snape in Gran's dress and hat
2 - Parvati - the mummy
3 - Seamus - the banshee
4 - unidentified female student - rat
5 - unidentified female student - rattlesnake
6 - unidentified female student - eyeball
7 - Dean - hand
8 - Ron - spider

Then Lupin calls it back before Harry has to deal with it, and sends it to Neville to finish it off.  Harry and Hermione didn't have to work with it, because they answered the questions correctly at the beginning of the class.

Now we know that Lavendar was one of those unidentifed students.  We also know that there are definitely only five boys in Harry's dorm room, so that's how I knew that the 2 remaining students were girls.

Ta-da!

Jeralyn, the Voicelady

"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you 
can't see where it keeps it's brain!"
Arthur Weasley, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
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