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Harry Potter: "How many people know virtually information technology?"

Dobby: "Very few, sir. Mostly people stumbles across information technology when they needs information technology, sir, but often they never finds it over again, for they practise not know that it is always there waiting to be called into service, sir."

— Dobby explaining to Harry Potter about the unique nature of the Room of Requirement^[src]

The Room of Requirement, also known as the Come and Go Room,^[ii] was a hush-hush room within Hogwarts Castle, that only appeared when a person was in great need of information technology.^[2]

The room is thought to take some caste of sentience, considering it transforms itself into whatever the witch or wizard needs it to be at that moment in fourth dimension,^[iii] although in that location are some limitations. For example, information technology cannot create food, as that is one of the five Principal Exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration.^[4] It is believed that the room is Unplottable, as it does non announced on the Marauder'due south Map,^[5] nor exercise its occupants, although this could simply be because James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Blackness, and Peter Pettigrew never found the room.

Contents

• 1 Location
• 2 History of apply
  • 2.1 Albus Dumbledore
  • 2.two Newt Scamander'south Ground forces
  • 2.3 Dumbledore's mention
  • 2.4 Dumbledore'south Army
  • 2.5 2nd Wizarding War
• 3 Room of Hidden Things
  • 3.1 History
  • 3.2 Protection
  • three.3 Skirmish in the Room of Requirement
  • 3.iv Items hidden within
• 4 Behind the scenes
• 5 Appearances
• half dozen Notes and references

Location

"It'south a proper hideout, as long as ane of us stays in hither, they can't get at us, the door won't open. It's all downwardly to Neville. He really gets this room. You lot've got to inquire it for exactly what y'all need — like, "I don't want any Carrow supporters to be able to get in — and it'll do it for you! You lot've just got to make certain you close the loopholes! Neville's the man!"

— Seamus explaining the Room of Requirement^[src]

Hall of Hexes

The room is located on the seventh floor in the left corridor of the Hogwarts castle and has a hidden entrance opposite the tapestry depicting the endeavour of Barnabas the Barmy to teach trolls ballet.^[i] The way to open the room is to walk by it three times thinking virtually what i needs, and the door volition appear.^[2]

It is advised that the users of this room be very specific about what they are looking for, as information technology has been shown that other people tin can enter the room and see what the occupant is doing if they know how the room is being used. The Inquisitorial Team establish the hideout of the D.A. in 1996 by knowing that the D.A. was in the room at the time. Neville Longbottom used this knowledge to create his hideout, as he specifically asked that the hideout be made unavailable to those who supported Alecto and Amycus Carrow.^[half-dozen]

History of use

Albus Dumbledore

Albus infront of the Mirror in the Room of Requirement

In 1927, Albus Dumbledore came here to reminince on his history with Gellert Grindelwald.^[7]

Newt Scamander's Army

In the 1930s, Albus Dumbledore, Jacob Kowalski, Newton Scamander, Theseus Scamander, Eulalie Hicks, and Bunty took a portkey in the room to travel to an unknown location.^[8]

Dumbledore'south mention

The showtime mention Harry Potter heard of this room was in 1994, when Albus Dumbledore told Igor Karkaroff of his discovery of a room full of chamber pots when he needed to become to the toilet. However, he was unable to detect the room once again later like many of those who stumbled across the room.^[9]

Dumbledore'due south Army

Dobby: "Dobby knows the perfect place, sir! Dobby heard tell of information technology from the other house-elves when he came to Hogwarts, sir. It is known by us equally the Come up and Get Room, sir, or else as the Room of Requirement!"

Harry Potter: "Why?"

Dobby: "Because it is a room that a person can only enter when they have real need of information technology. Sometimes information technology is there, and sometimes it is not, merely when it appears, information technology is always equipped for the seeker's needs."

— Dobby telling Harry Potter about the Room of Requirement^[src]

The Room of Requirement providing the D.A. with something to exercise spells on

In 1995, Harry Potter asked Dobby if he knew of a place where Dumbledore's Army could safely come across. Dobby told Harry of what the business firm-elves called the "Come and Go Room" or "Room of Requirement", which he had used to treat Winky after she had gotten drunk on Butterbeer, equally the room filled with antidotes to butterbeer and an elf-sized bed for Winky to sleep off her inebriation. He also said that Argus Filch had constitute extra cleaning supplies in the room. During the first D.A. meeting, Fred and George Weasley revealed that it had in one case taken the course of a broom cupboard which they had used to hibernate from Filch.^[ii] Previously Dumbledore had as well mentioned the Room of Requirement to Harry.^[ix]

Harry instructs the D.A. members on the Disarming Charm

Dumbledore's Ground forces used the room as their headquarters and practice area. Among the items provided by the room for the D.A. were Dark Detectors and shelves of helpful books such as A Compendium of Mutual Curses and Their Counter-Actions, The Dark Arts Outsmarted, Self-Defensive Spellwork, and Jinxes for the Jinxed.^[ii] Effectually Christmas, which was the last coming together before the break, Harry was cornered past Cho Chang nether some mistletoe and the ii shared a buss. They were somewhen discovered past the Inquisitorial Squad; due to the Squad wanting evidence, the Room provided the meeting room and the listing of members.^[10]

Second Wizarding State of war

The Room of Requirement as a hideout for Hogwarts students in 1998

During the 1997–1998 school year, Neville Longbottom and several other students used the room equally a hideout to escape the wrath of the new Death Eater professors, the Carrows. The problem was the lack of food, equally information technology was one of the exceptions to Gamp's Police of Elemental Transfiguration. So the hideout adjusted by adding an eighth passage into Hogsmeade, connected to the Hog'south Head pub, whose owner, Aberforth, provided food. Also, this advantage allowed members of the Order of the Phoenix to enter the school to aid fight off Lord Voldemort'southward attack, without setting off the Caterwauling Amuse on the village.^[6]

Room of Hidden Things

History

"I most lived in the Room of Hidden Things all last year, I know how to get in."

— Draco Malfoy to Harry Potter regarding the room of hidden things^[src]

Later Tom Riddle resurfaced as Lord Voldemort and had his 2nd request of becoming Hogwarts' Defence force Against the Dark Arts instructor denied past Dumbledore, Voldemort managed to sneak Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem into the room, equally a ways to hide ane of his Horcruxes. Unlike the others, he did not have time to fix up many powerful spells to protect it due to time constraints, but believed that he was the just one who knew of the room's beingness, and that nobody would wait for information technology.^[11]

In his sixth year, Draco Malfoy spent the majority of his days within this room, fixing the Vanishing Cabinet that he moved from the schoolhouse's hallway, in order to smuggle Death Eaters in and help him assassinate Dumbledore.^[12] The repair took most of the yr, as Draco spent much time within the room, and had his friends Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle remain outside in disguise to drop something onto the ground should anyone approach, to warn Draco not to come out.^[v]

Harry using the Room of Hidden Things to hibernate the Half-Claret Prince'south copy of Avant-garde Potion-Making

Harry used the room in his sixth year to hide the Half-Blood Prince's re-create of Advanced Potion Making. He found that many other students had used the room to hide a multitude of other objects, including the Vanishing Cabinet. Inside the cabinet in which he hid the book, Harry establish a muzzle that contained the skeleton of something that had five legs.^[13]

As well in Harry's 6th twelvemonth, Professor Trelawney attempted to use the room to hide her sherry bottles, but Draco Malfoy threw her out.^[fourteen] Draco was using the room to repair the Vanishing Cabinet so he could smuggle Death Eaters into the castle via a matching Vanishing Cabinet in Borgin and Burkes. They did in fact use the room to infiltrate the castle in 1997.^[12]

The Room of Hidden Things became inaccessible whenever the Room of Requirement was used for another purpose. Every bit a event, during the Battle of Hogwarts, when the room was existence used to provide passage to Hogsmeade and as a sanctuary, it had to be vacated of all people and "reset" before the Room of Subconscious Things could once again be accessed.^[6]

Protection

The Room of Hidden Things may have had a special protection that prevented a Summoning Charm being used in it, meaning students had to physically find what it was they were looking for. This was the case when Hermione attempted to summon Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, but failed, although this may be because the diadem was a Horcrux. She, Ron and Harry had to go searching for it instead.^[xi] However, this protection may have been placed past Voldemort specifically for the diadem, as he took similar precautions for his locket Horcrux. Tom Riddle believed that he, and merely he, was the just person that e'er discovered the deepest secret in Hogwarts. He never expected Harry to discover this bedroom. Additionally, fifty-fifty House-Elves cannot Apparate into the room, pregnant they have to know what to ask the room to become into in order to access it.^[2]

While Harry discovered Draco is using this bedchamber to progress his programme, he could not brand the room appear for him to see what the young Expiry Eater was up to, no affair what variation of thinking he used, thus giving Draco the privacy he requested.^[5]

Skirmish in the Room of Requirement

The Fiendfyre destroying much of the contents of the Room of Requirement

Later that same year, during the Battle of Hogwarts, it was used every bit an evacuation route to move the students abroad from the dangers that followed. Subsequently, Harry realised that Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, ane of Voldemort's Horcruxes, was hidden in the Room of Requirement, every bit he has seen it in his sixth year while hiding his Potions book and had even picked information technology upwardly without realising what information technology was.^[xi]

As noted above, as long as the room was being used to maintain the passage to Hogwarts, the Room of Hidden Things couldn't be accessed. Harry, Hermione, and Ron cleared the room and accessed the Room of Hidden Things, where they were ambushed by Draco Malfoy, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle. Crabbe let loose cursed fire that destroyed the Horcrux and many other objects, killing himself in the process. The unabridged room was turned into a body of water of flames, and Ron wondered if the Room of Hidden Things could be accessed again due to the possibility of it existence destroyed.^[eleven]

Items subconscious inside

Harry Potter saw many things that other students had subconscious in the room, including:

Some of the items Harry has seen in the Room of Hidden Things

Some more items seen in the Room of Hidden Things

• Broken and damaged article of furniture (mostly chairs, tables, & diverse cabinets haphazardly stacked), possibly subconscious to hide mishandled magic.^[thirteen]
• Thousands and thousands of books (either in tottering piles or in bookcases).^[13]
• Flying catapults.^[thirteen]
• Fanged Frisbees.^[13]
• Chipped bottles of congealed potions.^[13]
• Corked bottles whose contents nonetheless shimmered evilly.^[13]
• What looked like dragon eggshells.^[13]
• Several rusting swords.^[13]
• A heavy, bloodstained axe.^[13]
• An enormous stuffed troll.^[13]
• The broken Vanishing Cabinet that Graham Montague had gotten shoved in by Fred and George Weasley while attempting to have points abroad from Gryffindor during the 1995-1996 schoolhouse year.^[three] Afterward repaired past Draco Malfoy.^[12]
• Hats, jewels (including a trunkful), and cloaks.^[13]
• Many cages in various sizes, including one with a 5-legged skeleton in information technology.^[13]
• The lost diadem of Ravenclaw,^[thirteen] made into a Horcrux.^[11]
• The One-half-Blood Prince'due south copy of Advanced Potion-Making.^[thirteen]
• A chipped old bust of an ugly warlock.^[thirteen]
• A few, heavy broomsticks.^[xiii]
• A record turntable that "skipped".^[13]
• A banjo.^[15]
• A set up of dominoes.^[fifteen]
• Diverse metalware (including cauldrons).^[13]
• Diverse trophies.^[13]
• A mask.^[13]
• Various portraits; also frames.^[xiii]
• Suits of armour (some disassembled).^[thirteen]
• Diverse textiles.^[xiii]

Behind the scenes

The Room of Requirement as a LEGO Harry Potter set

The Room of Hidden Things in LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7

• In the fifth picture, Neville Longbottom found the Room of Requirement.
• In the sixth pic, Harry and Ginny have their first kiss in the Room of Hidden Things, instead of the Gryffindor common room.
• In the eighth picture, Gregory Goyle casts the Fiendfyre curse in the Room of Subconscious Things, killing himself in the process, since Vincent Crabbe was cut from the two-role moving-picture show. Besides, Blaise Zabini is present at the fight. Still Gregory Goyle is killed by grabbing a loose chair and falling into the Fiendfyre unlike Vincent Crabbe.
• In the Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince video game, the Room of Requirement can exist institute on the 6th floor, fifty-fifty though in one of the scenes in the game Harry says the room is on the seventh flooring. In the fifth game, fifth film, and all the books, the room is on the seventh floor. Presumably this is because the starting time flooring in Europe is called the second floor in the USA.
• The Room of Requirement is the master location of the Nintendo DS version of LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4, despite being introduced in Harry Potter and the Club of the Phoenix.
• In the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone video game, the Room of Requirement is possibly mentioned by Albus Dumbledore, who was walking around the castle and found a room full of Chocolate Frogs. On another day, nevertheless, the room was filled with Fire Crabs.
• In the Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire video game, the Room of Requirement is perchance mentioned past Albus Dumbledore, who was walking around the castle and institute a room full of a fine collection of chamber pots. He said that he wanted to notice it once again.
• In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Role two, in the Room of Subconscious Things can be seen with several objects from previous films, such as:
  • Some chess pieces from the giant Sorcerer's Chess Set from Harry Potter and the Philosopher'due south Stone.
  • The Chinese lanterns used in Horace Slughorn's Christmas party in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
  • Several flasks containing seeds and dried fruits from the Potions Classroom.
  • An Astrolabe-shaped object seen in Dumbledore's function.
  • The gramophone used in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn by Professor McGonagall when introducing the students to the Yule Brawl, constantly skipping a disc.
  • Possibly the Mirror of Erised
  • Several drinking glass stands seen in Remus Lupin's function in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
  • Several trophies from the Bays Room.
• In the books, it is stated that to enter the room, a person must walk by the wall iii times for the door to announced. In the movie, Neville Longbottom walks by the wall only once when he finds the room.
• At that place is contradictory evidence as to Dumbledore's cognition of the Room. Though he states to Karkaroff in Goblet of Burn down that he only found the room one time and did not know its truthful purpose, Pottermore reveals that Dumbledore establish the Mirror of Erised in the Room. Nonetheless, it is possible that he was being facetious, as saying he later found the Room's truthful purpose would ruin the point of bringing information technology upwardly in the first identify (that he didn't know all the castle's secrets).
• In the original script for the film adaption of Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince, Ginny claims to have been shown the Room of Requirement in her first year by Fred and George.^[xvi] This cannot be considered canon, however, every bit Fred and George did not know of the nature of the room themselves until the Dumbledore's Army meetings in Ginny'due south quaternary year.
• It is unknown if the Room of Requirement can still exist accessed, equally the Room of Hidden Things was heavily damaged by Crabbe's Fiendfyre sealing itself one time Harry, Hermione, Ron, Draco and Goyle were out.
• In the picture show adaptations of Half-Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows, almost all of the objects were reused props from the previous 7 films, which included, besides the previously listed objects:
  • Some of the man-sized chess pieces
  • Various calorie-free fixtures (candle stands & candelabras, lampstands, lanterns, & chandeliers); including the carmine Chinese lanterns used in the Slug Guild Christmas political party
  • Cabinet of flasks containing seeds and dried fruits from the Potions Classroom
  • Several glass stands seen in Remus Lupin'southward role
  • Some of Mad-Heart Moody's dark detectors
  • Several cups & trophies, and badges of merit from the Bays Room
  • Astronomy-related paraphernalia: including an astrolabe from Dumbledore's office; globes, armillary spheres, & telescopes with their stands and holders in various sizes
  • statue of the commencement Headmaster of Hogwarts
  • Various mirrors, including one with a frame similar in appearance to the Mirror of Erised (whether it is the actual Mirror is unknown, merely it did alive there one time)
  • Cornish Pixies
  • Squealer/boar statue begetting a resemblance to the ane in the Chamber of Reception
  • Statue of Gunhilda of Gorsemoor on the third floor concealing the secret tunnel towards Honeydukes Sweetshop, oddly perched on a jumbo plinth
  • Dragon skeleton, which hung from the ceiling of the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom
  • Piece of furniture from the Divination Classroom; including the draped tables stacked on top of the other and their chairs, mounds of teacups & saucers perched in a pyramid on a table, & the crystal balls with their stands
  • Gramophones, 1 of them constantly skipping a disc (a reference to the "skipping record turntable")
  • Trunks & suitcases in diverse sizes
  • Harp
  • Projector
  • Various glassware
  • Various textiles, including curtains, rugs, & sections of tapestries
  • A pair of antlers
  • Silvery skulls
  • Urns & jars
  • Stands & tripods
  • Clocks in various casements
  • pocket-size cannon
• In LEGO Harry Potter: Years five-vii the cabinet that contained a Boggart can be seen. Likewise, the Flying Ford Anglia is used to brand a bridge. Additionally, a panda is burned by the Fiendfyre.

Appearances

• Harry Potter and the Philosopher'southward Rock (video game) (Possible mention, not named)
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn (First mentioned) (Mentioned, not named)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Commencement appearance) (First identified as Room of Requirement)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (moving-picture show)
• Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince (video game)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (video game)
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay
• Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
• Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
• Pottermore
• Wizarding World
• LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-four (DS and IPhone versions just)
• LEGO Harry Potter: Years v-7
• Harry Potter for Kinect
• LEGO Harry Potter
• Harry Potter: The Character Vault
• Harry Potter: The Creature Vault (Mentioned merely)
• Harry Potter: The Wand Drove
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite
• Harry Potter: Magic Awakened

Notes and references

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Harry Potter and the Lodge of the Phoenix, Chapter eighteen (Dumbledore's Army) - ""Practiced," said Harry quietly, when she told him, "considering we've institute somewhere to have our outset Defence meeting. This evening, viii o'clock, seventh flooring opposite that tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy being clubbed by those trolls."
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.ane 2.2 2.3 ii.4 two.5 2.6 2.seven 2.8 2.9} Harry Potter and the Social club of the Phoenix, Chapter 18 (Dumbledore's Army)
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.one} Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 28 (Snape's Worst Memory)
4. ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 15 (The Goblin's Revenge)
5. ↑ ^{5.0 five.1 five.2} Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Affiliate 21 (The Unknowable Room)
6. ↑ ^{vi.0 six.i 6.2} Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 29 (The Lost Diadem)
7. ↑ Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald - The Original Screenplay, Scene 73
8. ↑ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
9. ↑ ^{ix.0 9.1} Harry Potter and the Goblet of Burn down, Chapter 23 (The Yule Ball)
10. ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 27 (The Centaur and the Sneak)
11. ↑ ^{11.0 eleven.i eleven.2 11.iii 11.four} Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 31 (The Battle of Hogwarts)
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1 12.2} Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 27 (The Lightning-Struck Tower)
13. ↑ ^{13.00 13.01 xiii.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 xiii.07 13.08 13.09 13.ten thirteen.11 thirteen.12 13.xiii 13.fourteen thirteen.xv thirteen.xvi 13.17 13.eighteen 13.nineteen 13.20 13.21 xiii.22 13.23} Harry Potter and the Half-Claret Prince, Chapter 24 (Sectumsempra)
14. ↑ Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 25 (The Seer Overheard)
15. ↑ ^{15.0 xv.one} Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Office 2 (video game)
16. ↑ Half-Blood Prince script on the Internet Movie Script Database (archived here)

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