[HPforGrownups] Re: The Magical Room Hiden in Hogwarts

[yr awen]

No: HPFGUIDX 42928

Melody said:
Ooo, I like that.  It is a room that arrives and help you when you are
in great need.  Glad the room was full of chamber pots and not
urinals.  Somehow chamber pots are more...fitting to Dumbledore's old,
romantic character.  If that theory is so, then it leaves JKR with
many possibilities with plot lines.  I wonder if the room is
dependable to arrive or just a chance happening?  Is there a way to
call it?  I wonder also if Dumbledore has seen it before?  Way to much
to think about before bedtime.<<<<<<<<<<<<

Indeed, especially if you've had a lot of fluids <g>

I think there's evidence in the series to indicate that need-driven magic is powerful stuff. For example, when Harry remembers desperately trying to get away from his tormentors at school (PS/SS), he somehow levitates himself up to the school roof in order to escape. Lily's self-sacrifice spell might fall under that category as well -- when something is so desperately needed that the power of human will can make it so (call it a miracle, maybe.) The Knight Bus is summoned by a simple gesture, but a wizard would obviously have need of it in order to want to summon it. If something like the "Chamber(Pot) of Secrets" room requires need to access it, it probably won't respond to an ordinary incantation. Unless the incantation was, "Please God, please... I really gotta go!!!!!" With some writhing and moaning in agony thrown in :-0

I too like the idea that the room is an 'all-purpose' room that is filled with whatever one needs at that particular moment -- maybe the presence of that room would explain Dumbledore's conjuring all those squashy purple sleeping bags from thin air in PoA.

HF.
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