The Room of Requirement

[joanne0012]

No: HPFGUIDX 68646

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dreamzworld_2000" <
dreamzworld_2000 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Beth" <jillily3g at y...> wrote:
...
> > Also, if the room merely summons, rather than creates, aren't 
> > Flitwick, Pince, et al annoyed when their possession disappear? 
> > (Maybe that's what's happening to Luna's stuff--someone has need of 
> > it <g>)
> > 
> > Beth
> 
> Well good thought on the part of the room's items but in my opinion, 
> i believe that the room simply conjures up whatever things the 
> occupant(s) happens to think of at the time. I dont think that the 
> room uses any summoning charm, just a simple conjuring charm. Then 
> again, how does the room conjure up these things? Doesn't it need to 
> use a wand or something similar?
> 
> beebee

The room doesn't get used often enough to explain Luna's losses, nor to 
annoy teachers -- the DAs were the first to use it deliberately in the book 
series, and since Dumbledore was mystified by the roomful of chamberpots 
and couldn't find it again, doesn't that imply that the room was unknown to the 
Hogwarts students and staff until Dobby revealed it to Harry as a potential 
meeting place for the DAs?  (The book mentions accidental uses other than 
Dumbledore's, like Filch finding cleaning supplies and the Weasley twins 
finding a hiding place.)  Makes you wonder what other Hogwarts secrets  
those house elves are privy to!

A room wouldn't need a wand to perform magic, the room is already magic, 
itself.  Like the Mirror of Erised.

"How many people know about it?' said Harry, sitting up straighter in his chair.
    'Very few, sir. Mostly people stumbles across it when they needs it, sir, but 
often they never finds it again, for they do not know that it is always there 
waiting to be called into service, sir.'