HBP - Hogwarts Secrets

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No: HPFGUIDX 147797

> Tonks wrote:
<SNIP>
> Maybe we need to ponder what other secrets the castle 
> holds. "Stronghold of ancient magic", bring to mind the "ancient 
> magic" that protected Harry at Godrick's Hollow. Also maybe there 
is 
> magic there that may have only been unlocked by DD.
>    
> >snip<
>   
> What else?? What is in Hogwarts that LV wants? Something or some 
> knowledge that he needs?
> 
>   Luckdragon:
>    
>   I wonder if there could be more to the "Room of Requirement". If 
it presents itself as any place you need to use, equipment included, 
could LV use it in some way to find what he needs to be more powerful 
(ie: ancient books, potions, etc). 
>    
>   Could there be other secret rooms yet to discover.
>    
>   Could DD's possession's be of value, all his little instruments 
that may have helped him overcome Grindewald.
>    
>   Perhaps he just wants more "trophy's" to make more Horcruxes ie) 
the hat & sword.
>    
>   Mainly though I think LV just want's Hogwarts so he can breed his 
pureblood wizard army to take over the world.



Dumbledore is clear on this:

'Dumbledore pointed his blackened fingers to the wall behind him, 
where a ruby-encrusted sword reposed within a glass case.
"Do you think that's why he really wanted to come back to Hogwarts, 
sir?" said Harry. "To try and find something from one of the other 
founders?"
"My thoughts precisely," said Dumbledore. "But unfortunately, that 
does not advance us much further, for he was turned away, or so I 
believe, without the chance to search the school. I am forced to 
conclude that he never fulfilled his ambition of collecting four 
founders' objects. He definitely had two — he may have found three — 
that is the best we can do for now."'
(HBP Ch23)

Unless DD is lying (highly unlikely) or wrong (unlikely), LV wanted 
to come back to Hogwarts to get his hands on Horcrux material. This 
immediately suggests two options:

LV wanted to search the Room of Requirement (POOR):

If correct, how does this advance the plot? It doesn't. It means that 
if there IS a founder-object in the RoR, it ISN'T a Horcrux, because 
it would be preposterous plotting by JKR. LV found it and got it out 
via an agent, Horcrux-ed it, then returned it via an agent? She just 
isn't going to write something as silly as that.

LV wanted access to the Sorting Hat (GOOD):

Why? So he can A) use his teaching position to influence an 
appropriate student of each House to pull a founder-object from the 
Hat, as Harry did in his second year, then B) run off with and/or 
destroy the Hat. Otherwise, the Hat represents the biggest threat to 
his Horcrux plan. Anyone who realises its power, and has access to 
Hogwarts students, can round up four of his Horcruxes in a matter of 
minutes. This may be the important thing about the Hat that JKR has 
hinted about. What is extraordinary about this, if true, is why 
doesn't Dumbledore realise and do it? Maybe he wants Harry to figure 
it out for himself, since he is the chosen one. Maybe he doesn't want 
the moral responsibility of pressuring students to use the Hat, since 
it might make them into targets if LV realises what is going on?

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