[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: "ARGH!" the List, the Names, The Room

[IAmLordCassandra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 67739

In a message dated 7/6/2003 1:30:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jsmithqwert at hotmail.com writes:


> 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.

This might work...but there's a passage in the US version on page 387 that 
got me thinking... 

"when Winky has been very drunk. He has hidden her in the Room of Requirement 
and he has found antidotes to butterbeer there, and a nice elf-sized bed to 
settle her on while she sleeps it off, sir...And Dobby knows Mr. Filch has 
found extra cleaning materials there when he has run short, sir, and-" 

Now...the elf-bed makes some sense. I imagine they do have places to sleep. 
However, where would the antidotes and extra supplies come from?  Does Snape 
have a batch of butterbeer antidotes at the ready? Or did Fred and George 
stumble across one whilst doing their experimenting?    

Just my thoughts ^^ 

~Cassie~ 


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