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arrangement of tables and the door to the antechamber in the Great Hall: -
"Harry, Ron, and Hermione walked past the Slytherins, the Ravenclaws, and the Hufflepuffs, and sat down with the rest of the Gryffindors at the far side of the Hall..." (GF12) -
"Harry saw Viktor Krum rise from the Slytherin table and slouch up toward Dumbledore; he turned right, walked along the staff table, and disappeared through the door into the next chamber." (GF16) -
"Harry got to his feet, trod on the hem of his robes, and stumbled slightly. He set off up the gap between the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff tables." (GF16) -
note: in PS7, the table positions differ slightly. When Harry stands in front of the High Table, facing the students, he sees the Hufflepuff table on the right, Ravenclaw as second from the left, and Gryffindor on the far left. That makes the order in 1991 [Y11] (starting from the doors): Hufflepuff, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor. Apparently they changed places by 1994 [Y14]. -
details of the Entrance Hall: -
"Hermione seized Harry's arm and dragged him across the [Entrance] hall to the door of a broom closet..." (PA21) -
"Harry could hear the drone of hundreds of voices from the doorway to the right...but Professor McGonagall showed the first years into a small, empty chamber off the hall." (PS7) (the Great Hall is on the right when you come in the front doors) -
"Feeling oddly as though his legs had turned to lead, Harry got into line behind a boy with sandy hair, with Ron behind him, and they walked out of the chamber, back across the hall, and through a pair of double doors into the Great Hall." (PS7) (the antechamber is across the hall from the doors to the Great Hall) -
"When they spotted Crabbe and Goyle coming out of the Great Hall, Harry and Ron hid quickly behind a suit of armor next to the front door." (CS12) -
"By far the hardest part was hiding them in the [broom] closet across the hall." (CS12) -
"Instead of going up the marble staircase, Cedric headed for a door to its right. Harry stood listening to him going down the stone steps beyond it, then slowly he started to climb the marble ones." (GF17) (to the Hufflepuff common room) -
"She turned left at the bottom of the staircase and hurried toward the door through which Cedric Diggory had gone...He and Ron followed Hermione down a flight of stone steps..." (GF21) (to the kitchens) -
the location of the staff room -
windows in the Great Hall, near the front door: "'I think the feast's already started,' said Ron, dropping his trunk at the foot of the front steps and crossing quietly to look through a brightly lit window...Harry hurried over and, together, he and Ron peered in at the Great Hall." (CS5) | Harry's Dormitory Map of the Chamber of Secrets references: - ...the tap glowed with a brilliant white light and began to spin. Next second, the sink began to move; the sink, in fact, sank, right out of sight, leaving a large pipe exposed, a pipe wide enough for a man to slide into.
- It was like rushing down an endless, slimy, dark hole. He could see more pipes branching off in all directions, but none as large as theirs, which twisted and turned, sloping steeply downward, and he knew that he was falling deeper below the school thatn even the dungeons...and then...the pipe leveled out, and he shot out of the end with a wet thud, landing on the damp floor of a dark stone tunnel large enough to stand in.
- ...[T]he tunnel was quiet as the grave, and the first unexpected sound they heard was a loud crunch as Ron stepped on what turned out to be a rat's skull.
- The light slid over a gigantic snakeskin, of a vivid, poisonous green, lying curled and empty across the tunnel floor.
- The tunnel turned and turned again...He wanted the tunnel to end, yet dreaded what he'd find when it did. And then, at last, as he crept around yet another end, he saw a solid wall ahead on which two entwined serpents were carved, their eyes set with great, glinting emeralds...The serpents parted as the wall cracked open, the halves slid smoothly out of sight, and Harry...walked inside.
- He was standing at the end of a very long, dimly lit chamber. Towering stone pillars entwined with more carved serpents rose to support a ceiling lost in darkness., casting long, black shadows throught he odd, greenish gloom that filled the place.
As he drew level with the last pair of pillars, a statue high as the Chamber itself loomed into view, standing against the back wall...it was ancient and monkeyish, with a long thin beard that fell almost to the bottom of the wizard's sweeping stone robes, where two enormous gray feet stood on the smooth Chamber floor. Map by Marie Møller |