Chapter 28
The Room of Requirement
"I think we're missing something, guys." Sirius said stopping in the middle of the seventh floor hallway, staring at the Map. James, Remus, and Peter looked over his shoulder and he pointed to a small but noticeable blank spot. They walked over to where the blank spot was.
"What do you think it is?" Peter asked attempting to push random bricks on the wall hopping it would open.
"Look how small it is; it's probably just a closet or something. The real question is how to get in there." James replied, he was checking out the tapestry on the opposite wall. It was a weird picture of dancing trolls. He was even trying to tickle the trolls.
"I can't imagine it having anything to do with the tapestry, James." Remus told him.
"Why? The other one opened by the picture."
"That's exactly why James. It would make it too obvious. If they wanted it to be that obvious they would have made a door."
"Why would they try to hide a closet?"
"Maybe they hid a dead body in there." Sirius said excitedly. They just stared. "What?"
"Seriously?" Remus for the millionth time wondered what in the world was going on in his head. Sirius glared at him. "What?"
"Say that to me again and I might attack you." They gave him confused looks.
"What do you have against the word Serious?"
"I'll give you three guesses." They paused for a moment before James burst out laughing. Sirius slammed his face into his palm.
"Serious!" He chocked out before falling to the floor. Remus sighed.
"Sorry, Sirius. I didn't mean to."
"I don't get it." Peter said confused.
"It's a word pun, Peter. The word serous and Sirius' name sound like the same word."
"Make any jokes about it and I will throw you in the lake for giant squid food." Sirius threatened trying very hard to ignore James, who was still on the floor.
"You're not usually against any joke. Usually you laugh about the dumb ones, what is different about that one."
"After a while it gets old. Cissy used to tease me with it every time she came over. She may just be the lest creative person in the world."
"Who is Cissy?" Peter asked.
"One of my cousins."
"Does she go here?" Remus looked confused.
"Nah, she decided to go to Durmstrang, they teach dark arts there." (A/N Sorry I recently realized Narcissa was not in this story at all. This is my excuse.)
"Oh. They do? Why?" Remus said surprised. Sirius just shrugged.
"Back to the topic at hand, how are we going to get into that room?" James asked, none of them had noticed him get off the floor. They went back to staring at the blank wall and James began to pace.
"Maybe there just isn't anything there." Sirius began to watch James pace.
"There has to be something in there, and we need to find out what it is." He continued pacing thinking about their need.
"Look!" Remus exclaimed pointing at the wall, that now had a large door on it. "How did it open?"
Sirius walked up to the door and opened it. "Let's worry about it later." James nodded and all of them walked into the room.
"They were surprised when the only thing it contained was a bookshelf. Remus to no ones surprise walked up to it and began looking though the books it contains.
"What is the point of this? This is the most useless room in the world." James complained, he couldn't find a purpose for the room to exist.
"Maybe it's not." Remus said waving them over to the bookshelf. "They are all about map making."
James looked though the books and found that Remus was right. Everyone of the books had something to do with maps.
"Guys, no one has ever made a map of the school before, why would anyone ever need this." Sirius pulled out one of the books and began looking though it.
"You've got a point, why would the builders put a room in the middle of nowhere with stuff in it that no one is going to need, and then hide it." Remus sounded confused.
"Oh well, let's just finish this room and get out of here." Sirius said putting the book back. "I need something to write on." Sirius thought out loud. "I'll just use one of these books."
"Why don't you use that desk?" Peter questioned.
"What desk?"
"That one right there." Peter pointed to a small desk near the entrance. They stared at it.
"That wasn't there before." James said shocked. "I swear that wasn't there before."
"We know." Sirius and Remus said at the same time. Sirius walked over to it
"How did it get here?"
"You know, what I think is strange is that it appeared when Sirius mentioned he needed it." Remus seemed to be lost in thought.
"Maybe the room gives you what you need." James said. "Actually guys didn't it open when I said we need to find out what is in it?"
"Yes, that must be it. It appears when you need it and gives you what you need." Remus said excitedly.
"So it's the complete opposite of useless." James walked over to the wall and patted it. "Sorry I called you useless."
"James, mate, you do realize you are talking to a wall, right?"
"Ya, but if it's able to understand us when we say we need something then it can understand me now." Sirius just laughed and shook his head.
They attempted to continue with the map, until Sirius quickly ran into a problem.
James, Remus, and Peter walked over to him when he told them about it. He attempted to draw a line but none of the ink came off the quill.
"Either my ink became invisible in the last five minutes or we have a problem."
"This room must be unplotable." Remus stated the obvious.
"Darn it. Now what?"
"Why would they put something unplotable inside something unplotable? It doesn't make any sense."
"They wanted to keep it out of the wrong hands" Sirius told them.
"Huh?"
"Do you have any idea what a dark wizard could do with this room? If they figured out how to use it correctly they could get weapons of mass destruction from it or something."
"I suppose then, it's a good thing we cant put it on the Map." James said and Sirius nodded.
"Let's remember where this is though, it could be useful later."
"We should give it a name." James said as they walked out of the room.
"Why?" Sirius asked amused.
"I just think we should."
"James, you are so childish." Sirius teased, and James stuck his tongue out at him.
"Do you want a name or a title?" Remus asked.
"Little of both, something that sorta describes what it does." Remus thought for a moment.
"The Room of Requirement."
A/N) Sorry again about the Narcissa problem, oh well everyone makes mistakes.
The Room of Requirement to me is as much of a character as the sorting hat, I don't know why but it seems alive, so I am probably going to have them talk quite a bit.
I'm still looking for prank ideas and reviews.