If You Have to Ask, You'll Never Know. If You Know, You Need Only Ask.

In case you, Dear Reader, haven't had a chance to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows--Part 2, this is a picture of The Room of Requirement:



And if you are like me, and you view movies as amusing but seriously lacking substitutes for the books themselves, here is an illustration from the book:



The Room of Requirement is a pretty nifty part of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It is a magical room which can only be discovered by someone who is in need. It is called the Come and Go Room by the house-elves of Hogwarts. The Room is located on the seventh floor, opposite a tapestry showing Barnabas the Barmy trying to teach trolls to dance the ballet. To make the Room appear, a person has to walk past the section of blank wall three times concentrating hard on what is needed.

And many times, what is needed is a place to unload something quickly or hide something you'd rather not have found by anyone else.

Now, I sense that you are fidgeting in your seats, wondering when I am going to get to the point of all of this.

The point is this:

The inside of my house doesn't yet look EXACTLY like the Room of Requirement, but it's getting pretty close.

And the problem is, people around here keep needing a place to quickly unload stuff faster than I can get it picked up.

I need a calm, serene, uncluttered home.

The Room of Requirement doesn't seem to work for me.

I must be a Muggle.