JK's Favourite Room, and Room of Requirement

[shwanalynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 72517

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "mtwelovett" <mbush at l...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Josephine" <josie421 at h...> 
wrote:
> > Mtwelovett:
> > > 
> > > What if the Room of Requirement was the room in which Harry 
found 
> > the Mirror of Erised in SS?  
> 
>  Josephine wrote:
> > 
> > That could be right -- the Room of Requirement was what 
Dumbledore 
> > needed at that particular time - to store the Mirror - and Harry 
was 
> > feeling all lonely and wanted to see his parents. Fits, but not 
> > entirely...
> > 
> 
> and I reply (mtwelovett):
> 
... We also don't see in OoP if the DA students have to pass in
> the corridor three times and all that to get into the DA meetings 
once the first ones are in the room... in that sense, could someone 
not looking for the meetings but knowing about the room, walk in on a 
DA meeting not meaning to? or would it become what they need and 
occupy the same but differet space... wouldn't that be weird? (but 
that would negate the initial theory) Just something to think about. 
> 
> Mtwelovett

shwanalynn:
When the RoR had the Mirror in it, maybe it became that room because 
it's what Dumbledore needed, not necessarily what Harry required for 
hiding.  I've always wondered how D decided where to put the Mirror 
so that Harry would happen upon it.  If it were in the RoR, that 
would make sense, and be a better guarantee that H would find it 
(without looking for it).