Abusing the Room of Requirement

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No: HPFGUIDX 76217

Zeynep Oner:
Does the Room produce a solution to all requirements, even 
complicated or immoral or illegal ones? What do you think?

Joe:
I don't think the Room of Requirement grants wishes persay. The only 
thing it gives is a location... For example, Wishing to kill 
voldemort wouldn't work, cause its wanting an action as such. 
However, wanting a location to do something would work. ie, Fred and 
George finding it as a hidden broom closet. Dumbledore need a 
bathroom late at night. Dobby need a location to hide Winky 
while she was drunk. They all wished for "locations." Kinda see what 
i'm saying? The wish or need would need to be in that form, not of 
wanting to just outright do something. It only supplies 
the place, not the actual wish.

Buttercup:
I think the room can only produce inanimate objects, not live 
people. I don't think it would give the answers to a test, but it 
could provide a lab to practice potionmaking. I'm sure there are 
limits to the room's abilities.

Tess (me):
What I find most interesting about the room is that Pansy was able 
to enter it to get the D.A.'s membership list after the raid:

"Miss Parkinson ran into the Room of Requirement for me to see if 
they had left anything behind....We needed evidence and the room 
provided..." (Ch. 27, pg. 617, U.S. edition)

When she entered, after all of the D.A. members had gone, was it 
still 'open' and set up for the meeting, with cushions on the floor, 
etc.? I can't imagine that it would be, because we're told that it 
can only be accessed by someone who desperately needs it for a 
specific purpose, and often even people who've found it once can 
never do so again (Ch. 18, pg. 386-87, U.S. edition). So I'm 
doubtful that she ran into the exact room that the D.A. had been 
practicing in, list and all.

Or did she simply walk in front of it three times and think, "I need 
evidence that a secret meeting was being held here"? That's what the 
second part of Umbridge's statement seems to imply, IMO. If that's 
the case, then the room did indeed grant a wish for a material 
object and produce something other than a location, and it 
apparently doesn't care if what it produces will be used for an 
immoral purpose.

Of course, there's always the possibility that walking in front of 
the room and thinking, "I need this room to contain exactly what it 
did twenty minutes ago" (or "the last time it was used" or "when 
Potter was here" or whatever), will open a copy of a previous setup, 
and therefore you could indeed enter (and take stuff out of) a 
version of the room that had been set up by and for someone else's 
needs. Aw, I never said it was a perfect theory.

Tess