Room of Requirement -- Horcrux

[gwen_of_the_oaks]

No: HPFGUIDX 148161

gelite67 wrote:
>
> Is it possible that LV hid one of the horcruxes, the necklace in 
> particular, in the Room of Requirement when he spoke to DD about 
> teaching there?

> The text says that Harry saw "jewels" and a tiara in the ROR when 
>he was hiding his potions book.
> <snip off end>


I've thought along those same lines.  Once Harry put the "tarnished 
tiara" on the bust of the warlock, I was convinced it would be 
important again somehow.  I want very badly for it to be the 
Ravenclaw artifact, but can find nowhere in cannon that describes 
Rowena wearing a tiara.

Whats harder to find believable, though, is that LV could find the 
Ravenclaw artifact, turn it into a Horcrux, and then want to leave it 
in a room full of junk that others have easy access to.  

Even if there was a good reason to leave it in the ROR, he would have 
had to done all this while still a student, which is unlikely.  And, 
if he did want to plant a Horcrux at Hogwarts, and managed to do so 
in his interview with DD - wouldn't the Chanber of Secrets have been 
a much better hiding place than the ROR?

As for the necklace Horcrux, I'm more inclined to believe the heavy 
locket at Grimmauld Place is the Slytherin necklace - but if so, I'm 
a little disappointed that everyone could find the locket, inspect 
it, try and fail to open it, and through all of that not realize that 
it had Slytherin's mark on it.

Gwen