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"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?
Hmm. In case of emergencies. In a place like Hogwarts? Imagine that? Heh. Sierra did sit up a little taller and prouder as the prefects bathroom was brought up. Pride. She had it. Nobody called her Slytherin for nothing, after all. Sierra then smirked at the story of Professor Pride. What an idiot. Nobody gives an ultimatum like that unless they have power, and this guy sounded like he had none.
When the story was over and another question was brought up, Sierra raised her hand.
"What about the locker rooms? Each common room has one, so it'd make sense for the individual locker rooms to be protected, as well," she said. Sierra cared more about her precious Quidditch strategies being stolen and less about who saw how she folded her bedsheets in the morning.