Chamber of Secrets same as Room of requirement. Was: Racism and Snape's grud

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 101847

Pippin [note] that the Chamber of Secrets, like the Room of 
 Requirement, was able to provide Harry with what he needed. 
 Maybe Tom only found a basilisk and a gigantic statue of 
 Slytherin in the Chamber because he wanted to.
 
Alla responded:
 Pippin, your reading of canon is one of the most original and unusual 
 on the list.
 
This is interesting. So, does it mean that Salsar never left Basilisk 
at school, but Chamber of Secrets just conjured one according to 
tom's wishes and it stayed there for fifty years?
 
Carol:
I think that Pippin was half-joking here, but being behind on posting
and not able to go back to check I can't be sure.

In any case, it wasn't the Chamber that provided Harry with what he
needed (Fawkes and the sword of Godric Gryffindor by way of the
Sorting Hat), it was Dumbledore, who had arranged for help to be given
to those who needed it and loyalty to him to be rewarded. Geoff or
someone will find the right quotes if you want them; they're in the
scene where Hagrid is being arrested by Fudge and Dumbledore is being
relieved of his duties by Malfoy.

IMO, and of course there's no canon for this, Fawkes and the Sorting
Hat, which is not just a hat but a sentient being, were in on the plan
and came when "called," the hat (which at first appeared to be empty)
as a kind of magical container for the sword and a way of transporting
it. That is, through some plan or spell of Dumbledore's, they were
somehow aware of Harry's statement that Albus Dumbledore, not Lord
Voldemort, was the greatest wizard of the age, and were simultaneously
aware of his peril. In any case, the Chamber of Secrets didn't provide
the aid Harry needed; Dumbledore did.

Carol