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Originally Posted by Tegz 
"To make the people who can get in to whatever part feel special and exclusive?" West suggested, putting his hand up, "Which can encourage a sense of belonging to a particular house or group or whatever." Just saying. Part of what made a house a house, or prefects prefects, or whatever, was knowing the secrets and stuff associated with that group, and not knowing the secrets of another group.
Yup. His point of view was SLIIIIGHTLY different wasn't it? Oh wells.
In the case of the common rooms yes. Scabior nodded."It would bring housemates closer together." Since only they could get into that certain area. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Kurumi found herself nodding a bit when West spoke, thinking the same sort of thing herself. Before being prefected her fourth year she had often wondered what the prefects' bathroom looked like and just what all was in there. It was actually the first place she explored once she had received her badge and she was rather glad that prefects had such a place because it provided...
Hand up! "Privacy and security," Kurumi answered. "A place where things can be discussed and not have unwanted ears overhear anything or see something that was going on. Or to keep harmful people or creatures from entering easily. Historically we saw how this could cause panic when Sirius Black entered the Gryffindor common room." Although he was no real threat in the end. Or like when Gryffindor had house meetings and didn't want the other houses knowing their plans and what not. Selina was especially avid about these with Quidditch. All those secret team lineups and strategies and what not. Ah, but no. "In the case of the Common Rooms however it is not that private. Your information might not be spread to other houses but there are a number of people in your house that could get the information and spread it anyways." Quote:
Originally Posted by the fastest seeker Well, she knew that it wasn't the question but she didn't know what to answer to that question. At least he didn't snap at her which she appreciated. Hmmm....Now what was the next question?
Still discussing passwords obviously. Cassia considered the question and tried to think hard and fast...Well as hard and fast she could manage anyway. She then raised her hand and spoke," Each one of those places that are protected by passwords were first established for certain people to use or enter. It's a way of keeping order I guess. Because otherwise all students,in the common rooms case, would be able to enter any common room. Then what's the point of having houses if it didn't have any specificity to it." That at least what she could think of. Scabior snapped his fingers and even let out a smallsmaall smile. "Yes exactly. That's exactly it.." Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga Minerva was not satisfied with the response she got from her answer. She wasn't one to fight, argue, or disagree with a professor, but her hand shot up, "But, Professor.. A person that might come across the chamber, but doesn't know parseltongue or how to copy it still couldn't get in. Which would make the parseltongue itself a password to protect the area so not just anyone could get in." Putting her hand down feeling better of explaining her answer she began to listen again.
Minerva then put her hand up again, "Well in these areas the school doesn't want just any student getting in, because each common room has meanings, and a special place for each house. So bringing other houses into that area would take away from its special ways. Same goes for the prefects bathroom. It holds a special place and a meaning behind being there. If just any student could use it, it would not hold that meaning any longer. So keeping them protected by passwords, keeps that meaning intact." Well.....Scabior nodded, listening and taking in what the Puff was saying. She made a good point but...."See it's tricky. Since there are no set words that someone must use the idea of it being a password is out. However like you said, maybe, if you consider the language an important aspect of opening the chamber then it can possibly be considered a password. Though keep in mind, if the Hufflepuff password is "orange" and someone says orange in French it will not open. If you are considering the use of Parseltongue the language as a password then you also have to consider the use of the English language as a password." Hmm. Did she get it, or had he confused her? Quote:
Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow Why did places like the prefects' bathroom and the common rooms need passwords? Ella stroked her imaginary beard while she listened to her classmates offer up their own ideas. She agreed with the whole safety aspect and also with the privacy point as well. "Professor, I think if those places didn't have passwords they wouldn't be as erm...special, I guess. For instance the prefects' bathroom is soley for the use of the prefects because they earned the right to be there. If just anyone could enter it would kind of lose it special quality." Same with the common rooms. They were kind of an escape from everything else for each specific house and if people were allowed to enter and exit as they pleased, the common rooms wouldn't feel as homey. Prefect bathroom? Yes. Another student that hit the nail on the head. "Yes! You are right." He nodded. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz
Aspen was the only one, but Vickers asking about getting into Faculty quarters made her laugh. Obviously Ravenclaws would ask questions just for the sake of asking questions, curiosity and all that, but... mostly... she figured he was asking for a more specific reason. Haha. Boys.
She didn't bother raising her hand to answer the question. She hadn't bothered answering of the other questions up until now either.
"They don't NEED limited access." Shrug. "If an area needed to be truly restricted, like the Hogwarts gates, it'd be truly restricted with charms and such. Passwords just work as deterrents. Or challenges for those students that get bored." With enough time, there wasn't a password at Hogwarts that wasn't breakable in Aspen's opinion.
Professors should password protect their classes. Imagine all the students that would be left outside? hahaha!mental-cackling!
Well the older Odessa had not spoken up in his class in a while. "Right you are. If things really did need to be protected passwords would not be used." Quote:
Originally Posted by Emzily That was a pretty straight forward question. All these were quite easy, but Theo blamed that partly on his inner secret spy. He knew all about the secret stuff..... yep..
"Well... I..." All dramatic-like, "...would like to go to classes knowing that my stuff was locked away from everyone other than my housemates." Because he trusted any Slytherin for obvious reasons. But WHO could trust a thieving Ravenclaw. Or Gryffindor. Theo wouldn't be surprised if Alice nabbed his Omnioculars at any given chance. Scabior rased a brow at the young boy. "But why? What makes members of each house do different that you can not trust one with your stuff?" There was a certain house he....didn't exactly like as much as the others but that did not mean that Scabior could not trust them. It just meant he didn't like them. --- "So, while all of your answers are good, some are more truthful than others. Just like Miss Somerlad said, for things like Common Room purposes, passwords are merely used to keep order. This many students in this many rooms and no other is allowed in. In case of emergencies it is known right away how many students are located in which common rooms." Which was exactly why students in separate houses could not visit each other.
"As for the prefects bathroom like Miss Bishop stated, become a Prefect is something that is earned. So restricting what they have to other students simply makes sense." The other students didn't earn anything. The prefects did.
"Most of other places in the castle where passwords are simply deterrents, and thank you Miss Odessa for pointing that out. If we truly wanted to safeguard an area it would be charmed as well as include something else just in the case of someone breaking the charm.' He nodded and then cleared his throat. Scabior language for: get ready to write some stuff down.
"So the idea of passwords instead of using charms on many things was introduced to the castle in the 12th century after many of the charms happened to backfire letting people into areas they shouldn't but mostly restricting more people than they should. The Charms Professor at the time, Petey Pride decided that perhaps giving the students the incantations to reomove the charm and then place it back would work. This lasted for a few weeks at most because in areas such as Common Rooms, younger students did not quite have a grasp on the complicated aspect of the charms that had to be used and so often had to wait outside for hours until an older student let them in." It was to say the least, extremely flawed. "Pride continously insisted that charms be used for everything, until another professor Surles Cavendish brought forth the idea of passwords. Pride was intimately against the use of passwords and gave the Headmaster an ultimatum, use charms or he would walk out of the job. Suffice it to say, he was replaced pretty quickly."
Poor Petey. Not so much though. Scabior stopped for a bit, letting anything sink in in case they wanted to ask any questions.
"After he left a list was drafted of all the places that would have passwords and all the places in the castle that would have charms, dubbed the Hogwarts Security Act. The act has since been lost, but the majority of password protected areas are known." Which was obvious enough since they all knew so many. With ALLL that being said, "Are there any places in the castle that do not currently have passwords that you believe need or should have one?
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