[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: "ARGH!" the List, the Names, The Room, and a bit about that kiss

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 71857

Kirstini wrote:
> Steve wrote:> When Umbridge caught the D.A.'s coming out of the
> room and brought Harry to Dumbledore's office where she presented the
> list of names of Dumbledore's Army as evidents, I couldn't 
> understand why they didn't use the most obvious explaination to 
> discredit that piece of evidence.
>  It's the 'Room of REQUIREMENTS'! It's a room that manufactures or
> creates what ever you require. If you were hungry, it would be full 
> of food; the room would make the food. If you had to go to the 
> bathroom, it would create chamber pots. If you needed evidence
> to convict someone; the room would create the evidence.>
> 
> But it doesn't create. Not at all. It Summons. When Harry first 
> enters the room, he looks around him and notices that the cracked 
> Foe Glass hanging up was the same one that had hung in Moody's 
> office last year. Dumbledore mentions "a collection of antique 
> chamberpots" - for them to be antique, they would have to have been 
> created a long time ago. They are *old* chamber pots. Therefore, 
> yes, they needed the evidence, but the Room could only produce the 
> list precisely because Harry had already created it. The room 
> creates an atmosphere - it's like an ideal interior designer - but 
> there is absolutely no mention anywhere of it creating anything.

There is no evidence that it summons things.  We have seen that a 
summoned object takes finite time to arrive, and must also travel 
normally through space.  Harry's and Fred and George's summoned 
brooms show this.  But the objects in the RoR show up 
instantaneously.  Hence they cannot have been summoned.

As for the antique chamberpots, Dumbledore presumably meant that 
they appeared antique.  We have no reason to believe that 
Dumbledore is a qualified chamberpot appraiser.   Besides, there 
is no such thing as a modern chamberpot.