Room of Requirement and Hidden Horcruxes

[jmwcfo]

No: HPFGUIDX 167124

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jedmrn" <JEDmRN at ...> wrote:
>
> Could one of the horcruxes be hidden in the Room of Requirement?
We
> know that the room can only be discovered by someone who is in
need.
> We know that Lord Voldemort wanted to return to Hogwarts to teach
> Defense against the Dark Arts.  Could other reasons be that he
wanted to hide his completed
> horcruxes and/or find Hogwarts relics?
>
> After reading (again) Chapter Twenty-Four (Sectumsempra) of the
Half-
> Blood Prince where Harry is attempting to hide the Prince's copy of
> Advanced Potion Making in the Room of Requirement from Snape, there
> were key thoughts/words that caught my attention:
>
> "I need a place to hide my book." (Harry attempting to open the
door)
>
> "...objects hidden by generations of Hogwarts inhabitants."
>
> I can't help but to think that in book seven, Harry will need the
> Prince's copy of Advanced Potion Making and possibly discover
hidden
> clues to another horcrux.
>
> Just some thoughts.


Jay Winokur replies:

JKR provides lists of oblects as they are observed by the hero as he
runs through the aisles of the RoR.  I would be surprised if the only
purpose for this detail was to supply dramatic weight for this
particular scene.  Instead, I interpreted that valuable objects, such
as horcruxes. have been hidden in plain sight in the RoR.  These
objects will be identified by Harry or another visitor, perhaps in
the course of retrieving the potions book, as described above.

If we carefully read this scene we see two objects that are
particularly interesting: a tiara and a bloodstained ax.  Others have
focused on the tiara as a potentially important object.  I greatly
favor the bloodstained ax. Just as Griffindor carried a jeweled
sword, another Founder carried an ax.

Taking the leap that the ax and/or tiara are Founders' posessions, we
seem to develop a trove of such relics: the cup, the locket, the
sword, the ring, Ravenclaw's wand (missing from Ollivander's shop),
and the ax and/or tiara.  Founders' relics are said to have powers
(separate from their function as possible horcruxes - not all of
these objects are horcruxes).

Which, if any, of these relics will prove important in DH?  How will
these powerful relics be used?  Will bringing them together produce
some sort of "critical mass?"

Jay Winokur