Harry Potter and the DH (Spoilers)?

Question

Why did Voldemort hide the diadem horcrux in the Room of Requirement? The reason in the book is that Voldemort was so arrogant and convinced of his own capacities that he thought that he alone knew about the Room, that nobody else would be able to find it. But when Harry hides his potions book there, he sees the Room full of junk (he even sees the tiara). So I expect that Voldemort saw the same thing when he went in to hide the diadem. So how could he think that nobody had been in there before him? And I just can´t understand that Lord Voldemort would leave a piece of his own precious soul in a room full of trash (especially other people's trash)! Personally, I thought the horcrux was hidden in the Chamber of Secrets, where nobody else could enter, although I have to admit that it would be harder for him to get in and out of there undetected in the limited time he had when he went to Hogwarts to ask Dumbledore for the job. Opinions, please! Thank you!

Answer 1

It was only Harry who thought that about Voldemort and the Room of Requirements actually. It was his point of view we're reading. I think the real reason lies in the fact that Voldemort failed in getting the Dark Arts job and given the limited time he had after that interview with Dumbledore, the Room of Requirements was the only choice to hide the diadem. We must remember that the hiding place was not really foremost in Voldemort's mind. His conceit lies in the thought that no one could know about his Horcruxes, therefore, their hiding place is merely secondary. The only place where he took real caution with was the cave, with the ring, he simply put a curse but it was just buried among the rubbles.

Answer 2

Well the Room of Requirement provides the peron (in this case Voldemort) with whatever they need. Just an empty room would have been a pointless place to hide something because anyone would see it as they walked in. So Voldemort was probably not too suspicious when it was filled with junk; especially not since he though no one else knew about it. I think Voldemort left the horcrux there because he didn't know it was other peoples junk. He thought it was just his own special little place that he ruled. Yes he could have hidden it in the Chamber of Secrets but that would be to inaccesable, especially in the short amount of time he had while visiting Dumbeldore about the job. Also people knew about the Chamber of Secrets. No one knew where it was or if it even truly existed but they had heard of; making it a less safer place then the Room of Requirement which Voldy thought no one knew about.

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Answer 3

Since Voldemort was big on his legacy as the heir of slytherin, he may have believed that only a true slytherin was smart enough to find the room or requirement, and all that other junk must have been from previous slytherins over the past thousand years.

Or he may simply have decided that no other student would be smart enough to figure out that anything in there would have been of any real value. And Voldemort showed some remarkably bad judgement with the storage of his Horcruxes, I mean he gave one to Lucius Malfoy for pete's sake.

Answer 4

I totally agree with you. Voldemort is just stupid, and that's why...lol. The only somewhat fesable reason I can think of is that Voldemort really wanted to put one of his horcruxes in hogwarts. I think it was important to him because it was his first real free place out of the orphanage. He could learn new things and become more powerful there. He could do whatever he wanted in his free time and there was so much to explore and do. Hogwarts was his true home and the true reason why he became what he became because he was able to expand his potential of magic.
Another reason could be that he was "too busy" to make another horcrux hideout. Maybe he wanted to do it in secret and usually he had a bunch of mini-death eaters on his tail and this was the only time he had off on his own. Dumbledore did say in their meeting in his office something about "his little friends waiting for him down in the Hogs Head." I don't know. Not very good, but something to think about.

Answer 5

you have to remember that voldemort was there a LONG time before harry so most of that junk was probably put there between the two's time at hogwarts. Also voldemort is REALLy stupid. He thinks that he is the best at like everything so if he saw some junk in there he possibly never thought that ppl tried to hide it he might have thought that it was just there or that the founders put it there.

Answer 6

I believe Voldemort was so full of himself, he was convinced that nobody would think he would hide it in such a "common" place. I'm sure he knew that many people had enetered the room before him, but felt no one would suspect him to hide it somewhere where it was right out in the open. He also, I'm sure, hid it there for its convenience And obscurity, not many people actually knew about the room. But Voldemort's overconfidence and arrogance failed him yet again, destroying his soul.
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Answer 7

Is Severus had lived post-DH, i think of they could have been pals. no longer close, however. yet whilst he had lived, then Harry could never understand the actuality and he nonetheless might hate him. So no, i do no longer think of they could have attached.

Answer 8

huh,voldie has really underestimated hermione and dumbledore's intelligence..also,harry,hermione and ron's loyalty/mainly harry&hermione twds dumbledore..so we their heads put together,they can easily cracked voldie's dumb code/secret...

Answer 9

one word...STUPID!! he's arrongant and thinks he knows everything...and that he's the most powerful smartest wizard to walk the earth....so not true though

Answer 10

I think it's J.K that's getting arrogant and convinced that anything she write will make her money!!!