Voldemort's Idiocy (Couldn't call it: Voldemort's Intellect ('twas))

[Goddlefrood]

No: HPFGUIDX 177904

> Simon (snipped):
> I think the Room of Hidden Things could be argued in a 
> different way, coincidental and stretching believablity 
> but workable. Voldemort would have seen little risk in 
> depositing a Horcrux in a location no one ALIVE would 
> have known about. And then other people began to find 
> it and added stuff like the Fanged Frisbees.

Goddlefrood:

This seems to overlook what Deathly Hallows itself would tell 
anyone. When Voldemort is thinking of the hiding place for the 
tiara Horcrux he clearly believes he is the ONLY person to have 
ever found the RoR. How he could possibly believe that given 
the amount of junk in there is unbelievable, or it was to me.

However, it occurs to me that this particular idiocy could be 
explained by the simple expedient of postulating, as I won't 
but maybe others would like to, that when Tom discovered the 
RoR he had required an EMPTY room and he got one. To anyone 
but him it would seem full of detritus, although to him it 
would appear empty.

It's far-fetched, workable though.

Not that I'm one to fill plot holes, this isn't one anyway; 
it's just that LV is thicker than the thickest thing ever 
to paraphrase a certain Betelgusan.

Goddlefrood, who reckons LV would hardly challenge an amoeba 
intellectually.