Pottermore implications - Mirror of Erised

[oryx_leucoryx]

From the spoilers blog, about History: Mirror of Erised:

Only after Professor Dumbledore makes key modifications to the mirror (which has been languishing in the Room of Requirement for a century or so before he brings it out and puts it to work) does it become a superb hiding place, and the final test for the impure of heart.

So if we believe Rowling, the mirror had been in the ROR for about a century and Albus took it out, apparently in 1991, when he decided to use it to keep Flamel's stone. This has several implications: First, in contrast with what Harry thinks in DH, Albus was well aware of the use of the ROR as a hiding place. So why didn't he search it for one (or more) of Tom's Horcruxes? He knew Tom had access to the school when he came to interview, the school fit the pattern Albus guessed, of using significant locations from his past as hiding places. (Does this mean Albus did not have a Horcrux-revealing charm?)

Also, if Harry was wrong about whether Albus knew about the ROHT then anything Harry 'thinks', 'believes' or 'guesses' that isn't actually supported by facts in the text is fair game. Might be right, might be wrong. Long live fanfic!

Comments

Re: RoHT or ROR?

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

Well, there's certainly ample leeway for it to have happened like that. Because there is no way that we'll ever know what it was that Tom actually found.

It is *easier* to find the Room of Hidden Things, certainly. If only because more people probably already know about it. But it all depends on what you ask for. Only the elves appear to be fully conversant with the fact that it will give you what you ask for (and Neville, by the end of the series).

Now, I've theorized elsewhere that Tom found the Room of Hidden Things at some point, and had been helping himself to anything charmed or potentially valuable, which he took to London during term breaks and sold at B&B for pocket money. We already know that he was a thief long before he was a murderer. I've also theorized that when Dippett removed the information on Horcruxes from the Library, to make Albus shut up about it, he stowed it there rather than keep it himself (*he* certainly didn't want it), where Tom found it, after Sluggy told him that the subject was banned, and not to be found in the Library. It fits what we have to try to sort into place and organize into a rational progression, but its all just theory, and impossible to prove.

Re: RoHT or ROR?

[annoni-no.livejournal.com]

I agree completely that he probably found the Room of Hidden Things at some point during his Hogwarts career. I also find your conceit of stealing from it to fund further (mis)adventures to be clever and enjoyable. But when it comes to the idea of Tom willingly hiding his precious Horcrux amongst a pile of *junk* whose location is well known throughout the castle staff, I just cannot reconcile this AT ALL with what little of Riddle's personality we're given to work.