Chapter 21 Summary

Kreacher and Dobby reported back to Harry: Draco Malfoy had not broken any rules that Dobby could see; he had been spending a lot of time on the seventh floor, in the Room of Requirement. From Kreacher and Dobby, Harry also learned that Crabbe and Goyle were performing their customary lookout roles, this time though disguised as girls. Although Hermione urged Harry to focus on recovering Slughorn's memory, Harry was determined to get into the Room of Requirement, to see what it was like when Malfoy was in it.

After Ron and Hermione, along with the other sixth years who were or were nearly 17, went to Hogsmeade to practice Apparitions, Harry opened his pack, pulled out the Marauder's Map and put on his Invisibility Cloak. He sprinted up the stairs, "past the tapestry of Barnabus the Barny teaching trolls to do ballet," to...