OOP: "ARGH!" the List, the Names, The Room

[jsmithqwert]

No: HPFGUIDX 67733

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Sarah" <sarah_harbuck at y...> 
wrote:
> > 
> > Which brings me to the potential uses of this room . . . Maybe 
all 
> > the kids are better people than I am, but upon learning how this 
> > room works, I am pretty sure I would have "required" myself a 
> > Firebolt, a couple thousand galleons, and one of those cool 
trunks 
> > Mad-Eye Moody has.  
> > 
> ME:
> Maybe whatever it is you require can only be used inside the room 
> itself.  Like using it to get money or material objects, you could 
> only possess them inside the room.  Clear as mud?  :)
> 
> Sarah in TX

I am inclined to believe that the room can only fill from things 
within the school; hence, when practicing DADA, the only dark 
detectors it could provide were fake!Moody's.  It provided Fltiwik's 
cushions, Pince's books, and Hooch's wistle.  It couldn't have 
provided walkways back to the common rooms because they don't exist, 
nor could it have provided a secure fire because that would 
necessitate its transformation into Umbridge's office (as a further 
constraint, I don't think rearranging the architecture of the school 
is within the room's powers).  Certainly, a pile of galleons might be 
available, but would entail stealing from someone (everybody) else at 
Hogwarts.

In addition, the room "appears" when you need it.  I don't think that 
it merely conceals its door way to those who don't need it.  It 
probably actually disappears and then reappears when needed.  If it 
is occupied, surely it wouldn't disappear, unless of course, the 
people inside really needed not to exist (an interesting form of 
suicide indeed).

Anyway, these are my thoughts,

jsmithqwert