Room of Requirement

Or here's a random Hufflepuff and here's the adventures Hufflepuffs get into that don't involve, like, everything Harry has to get involved with.

Like, or imagine if somebody were to stumble upon the Room of Requirement, like, We as viewers would know 100% what that is.

But to some random like fourth year Ravenclaw, you'd be like, what is this? What did I discover? It'd be really fun just to see the random days of people in the castle.

Oh my gosh.

Oh my gosh.

I agree with Dan.

The Room of Requirement, by the magic it was founded upon, would be one of, if not the most powerful aspect of quote-unquote sentient magic within Hogwarts.

Though it could not directly create food and drink, it would know where to send the students after...

When we get to Hogwarts at the end of this book, we learn that things for the kids are brutal and were brutal all year long.

They do find refuge in the Room of Requirement.

They manage to, I guess... suffer through some of the classes, especially the ones with the caros teaching it.

But it's not like the parents are assured in advance of any protection for their kids.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Snape knew about the students taking up residence in the room of requirement, for example.

Yes.

So half the group observed while the other watched for a while and swapped over.

We are in the room of requirement.

Why is space too confined? I never noticed this before until this listen.

So again, I'm starting to be weirded out by how similar we are, Sarah, because literally as I was taking notes on this chapter just a couple hours ago, that was my exact thought as well.

And I think in the Transfiguration section too, there's some cool switches that they do talking about Cho's emotions in the book versus the movie based on different changes they made to the story.

Very good.

My next favorite line would be, it was in the DA, when they're in the Room of Requirement, and Zachariah Smith says, we're not doing anything new.

If I'd known that, I wouldn't have come.

And this is so misleading because it's not corridors plural.

It's the same singular corridor every single time outside of the room of requirement, which not for nothing is on the seventh floor where the Gryffindor common room is.

And where Harry spent, you know, a great portion of right last year, highly recognizable.

I mean, it's it's so ridiculous.

So yeah, you have three things on the seventh floor corridor.

They are going to be the headmaster's office with the gargoyle, the entrance to the room of requirement and the portrait of the fat lady, which brings you into Gryffindor commoner.

Yeah, So it's like it is it wouldn't even be hard for Harry to pop this open and like run down the hall.

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And the inclusion of Mulciber, and dating back to the Slug Club, Avery, points to a certain generational followership beginning, as we know that both Mulciber and Avery's children will be present at Hogwarts during the Marauders' tenure there.

Now, Dumbledore of course refuses Voldemort the job, but Voldemort still makes good use of his visit to not only hide the Diadem of Ravenclaw in the Room of Requirement, but also jinx the Defense Against the Dark Arts job so that no one person could hold the job for more than a year at a time, a curse that lasts all the way until 1998 when Harry finally defeats Voldemort.

Spoilers.

Also, also, he may have also jinxed Dumbledore's ability to have a drink with another person, as he will not be seen to do so despite many opportunities after this point, which is the last time we do see him have a drink with another person, who just so happens to be Voldemort.

One of them is apparently Crabbe destroys one of the Horcruxes in Part 2 in the book.

Yeah, so, uh, you know when they were in the Room of Requirement with the Fiendfyre? Um-

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Okay, so I, I, I know I said I was gonna let it go, but, um, it's just l- okay, yeah.

So the, the Unknowable Room, for example, chapter 21, you've g- like, is the one where Harry finally discovers that Draco was going into the Room of Requirement, and the thumbnail art for that is, uh, Hermione siphoning ink off of Ron's essay.

Right.

And it's like, okay.

But she doesn't let that trauma turn her cruel or entirely dark.

She maintains this incredible airy curiosity and a bizarre passion for life, which we see fully blossom as she trains with Dumbledore's army in the Room of Requirement.

Enoch O'Connor shares that exact same dual fascination with life and death, but it manifests in a much more macabre, tactile way.

How so?