Chapter 27 Discussion / Why LV is bad / How TMR found the CoS / Cup Soul Bit

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 184176

Carol earlier:
>  
> > Carol, now wondering how Ron and Hermione got back out of the
Chamber of Secrets without Fawkes to hold on to
> 
> 
zanooda responded:
> 
> They had a broomstick, didn't they :-)? Isn't it the second best
thing after a Phoenix for flying up the pipes :-)? We didn't have
Quidditch in DH (and I'm not complaining :-)), but Harry and Ron still
were given an opportunity to show their skill on broomsticks, while
flying both in  the ROR and from (and maybe even to?) the Chamber of
Secrets.
>
Carol responds:

This is really odd. I just checked, and you're right that Ron and
Hermione show up not only with Basilisk fangs (that never get used) in
their arms (how dangerous is that?) but also "with a bromstick under
[Ron's] arm" (DH 622). And he drops *that* broomstick, apparently just
outside the RoR. And yet thirty pages later, a pair of broomsticks
show up in the RoR (as "required") when the Trio needed to escape from
the Fiendfyre:

"Harry, Ron and Hermione stopped dead: the fiery monsters were
circling them, drawing closer and closer . . . .

"'What can we do?' hermione screamed over the deafening roar of the
fire. 'what can we do?'

"'Here!' Harry seized a pair of heavy-looking broomsticks from the
nearest pile of junk and threw one to Ron, who pulled Hermione onto it
behind him" (DH Am. ed. 652).

Bit of a deus ex machina, I'm afraid, and Draco and his friends have
no such luck. Draco and Goyle are resecued only because Harry insists
on not letting them die. Crabbe reaps what he sowed.

Anyway, it appears that the RoR provided broomsticks twice, once on
request from Ron and once, by apparent coincidence or luck or in
answer to a silent request by Harry.

Thanks for answering my question, but it all sounds badly thought out
to me (especially having H and R carry armfuls of highly dangerous
Basilisk fangs with only two Horcruxes left to destroy, one of them a
snake who woulc bite them before they stabbed her). And by "badly
thought out," I mean both by the characters (who abandon their broom
and Basilisk fangs in any case) and by JKR.

So my only questions now are whether the RoR answers unspoken requests
in its hiding place form and whether the room is still usable in other
manifestations, such as an escape route to Aberforth's pub, now that
Fiendfyre has destroyed the contents of the hiding place. If so, what
happens when someone needs a place to hide a forbidden object?

Carol, who felt that the last few chapters, except for "The Prince's
Tale" and "The Forest Again," were rushed and hard to follow