The Room of Requirement--a plot hole?

[Arya]

No: HPFGUIDX 90988

ADVERTISEMENT
 "antoshachekhonte" wrote:
> In OotP, Draco and his friends enter the Room of Requirement after
> all of the DA members (aside from Harry) have skedaddled; they
> are looking for evidence of what went on and who was there. Lo,
> and behold, they discover Hermione's famous parchment bearing the
> signatures of all of the members of the DA.

> But isn't that just what the room would have contained? It's
> exactly what the Inquisatorial Squad REQUIRED in entering the
> room, yes?
> So why didn't Dumbledore simply point this out,<snip>

Pip!Squeak:

I wondered that too. But I think the explanation is that the Room of
Requirement *creates* nothing. It brings things from other places.

In which case, the parchment would be genuine - whether it was
originally in the room or not, there had to have existed a piece of
parchment headed 'Dumbledore's Army', with all the member's
signatures. Otherwise it couldn't be in the room at all.

So it's still evidence. The Room of Requirement was simply helpfully
collecting it for the Inquisitorial Squad.
------------------------
Arya now:  Better yet, why didn't Harry and the DA just think to "require" a 
secure place to hide and not be found?  "Require" that Umbridge and her 
squad not even find the door.  Fred and George said they'd found the room 
once in a dire need of an escape from Filch.  What happens when the room 
has two conflicting demands?  Is it first come-first serve?  Does the semi-
sentient Hogwarts decide who it wants to help?  

And if it is as it seems that the room simply nicks stuff from about the castle to  
become the items in the room, then isn't that dangerous?  Say....Draco Ferret 
Boy Malfoy wandered into the room and wanted an Invisibility Cloak...and 
guess what?  He got Harry's.  Harry's cloak is now gone and Draco, 
legitimately so it seems to him, got a free Invisibility Cloak.  You *can* take 
things out of the room--we see Umbridge waving about the evidence she 
required to implicate Harry and the DA when she's in DD's office.  This is a bit 
scary to me.  It doesn't just use stuff that's sitting about unclaimed and 
unwanted--it *pulls* and *steals* stuff that belongs to people such as 
Hermione's list.  

Unless...it does seem weird to me that Moody (the real one) would leave his 
Foe-Glass and other misc Dark Detectors behind after leaving Hogwarts.  
Perhaps...maybe Hogwarts can recreate imitations or temporary replicas of 
things that have spent a certain amount of time within the castle???  Hmm, 
then maybe one could get a slew of Invisibility Cloaks--the Order could sure 
use those.  Maybe Hermione should scrap the Library from now on and just 
go to the RoR to do assignments and let the Room get the books she 
"needs".  Save time on research and searching for books, I bet...  Maybe it'd 
even get her copies of other relevant essays and of teachers' answer keys to 
tests, copies of exams in advance...

Arya