Surprise Slide Staircase: Difference between revisions

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== [[Literature]] ==

* In the [[Harry Potter]] series, a staircase in Gryffindor House does this to prevent boys from entering the girls' dormitories. [[Double Standard|The boys' stairs have no such trap.]]

* In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, a staircase in Gryffindor House does this to prevent boys from entering the girls' dormitories. [[Double Standard|The boys' stairs have no such trap.]]

** In the final battle of ''[[Deathly Hallows]]'', Hermione turns a staircase in a Hogwarts secret passage into a getaway slide to escape from a pair of Death Eaters. Of course, the Death Eaters simply go sliding down after them, so she turns the tapestry covering the entrance at the bottom to stone. CRUNCH.

** In the final battle of ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (novel)|Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', Hermione turns a staircase in a Hogwarts secret passage into a getaway slide to escape from a pair of Death Eaters. Of course, the Death Eaters simply go sliding down after them, so she turns the tapestry covering the entrance at the bottom to stone. CRUNCH.

* The ''[[Hand of Thrawn]]'' duology has this built into secret passages in Thrawn's fortress, which causes considerable inconvenience to Luke and Mara.

== [[Tabletop ~~RPG~~]] ==

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''.

** ''[[Dragonlance]]'' module DL12 ''Dragons of Faith''. One of the traps in Chafka's Tower is of this type.