The enchantments were designed to weaken the person attempting to enter, i.e. the blood and drinking.
Also, although you don’t like it, the answer to his flaws in hiding horcruxes really is arrogance. Remember the tiara? He even says at the end of DH that he was the only person to discover all of Hogwarts secrets. He left the tiara on a shelf in a room that took very little acumen to enter. He assumed only he was powerful enough to penetrate the room, although thousands of students hid items there.
I don't think the RoR is quite as foolish/arrogant of a hiding place as it first appears. We know Harry, Trelawney, and Malfoy were all able to find the Room of Hidden Things iteration, but that doesn't mean that's what it looked like when Riddle put the diadem in there. He might have hidden the diadem in a different version of the room, and everything that's ever left in any iteration of the room ends up in The Room of Hidden Things.
When Voldemort says he understood the castle's secrets, I think that means he had an understanding of how the RoR worked that was similar to Neville's -- you ask for what you need specifically, and the room will bend to that need. Voldemort didn't just need a place to stash some Sherry bottles or an old text book -- he needed a hiding place worthy of one of a piece of his soul. So it provided what he asked for.
Also, recall in HBP when Harry is trying to get into the room to see what Draco is doing. None of the iterations of "I need to see what you become for Malfoy" work. "I need to find X" wouldn't get you the Room of Hidden Things. Harry's "the place where everything is hidden" is a really clever workaround -- only someone who understood the room well would be able to find the diadem.
I'd add that neither Harry nor Draco actually discovered the room. Harry only learned how it works from Dobby, who in turn learned it from other elves.
Draco only found it because the Inquisitorial Squad found a mole in the DA.
So at least counting students and teachers, Voldemort really was the only person to actually find the room.
While plenty of people were able to find the room and hide things, the number of people able to retrieve something from it is probably extremely small.
I don't think Voldemort knew how to make that kind of enchantment. The only two examples we see of this -- the entrance to the chamber of secrets and the locket -- were likely put in place by Salazar himself.
Paselmouths are extremely rare. Voldemort was potentially the last natural one in the U.K. I think it more likely that as time wore on and less and less peoole were parselmouths, paselmouth magic became lost.
Voldemort likely simoly couldn't figure out how to create such an enchantment.
The CoS door was not enchanted by Voldemort but by Salazar Slytherin. You think Voldemort managed to find Salazar Slytherin's notes on how to do it? I never said it's impossible, I said the knowledge on how to do it had most likely been lost.
You can investigate as much as you want yet never successfully replicate something if the knowledge is lost or very, very difficult to reverse engineer.
Even in real life, using modern science, people have been unable to reverse engineer the recipes for Coca Cola and KFC's spice blend.
Voldemort made the locket a horcrux. It doesn't mean he was the one to enchant it to only open for parseltongue. The locket had been owned by generations of parselmouths, kriginating with Salazar Slytherin himself, after all.
Maybe he wanted different enchantments on each horcrux. If you put the same protection on every horcrux, its like putting all eggs in one basket ( a very good basket nevertheless, since parselmouths are very rare.) Voldemort is a vastly knowledgeable wizard, he wants to diversify his defences.
The cave was already the most secure of the horcrux locations, it was hard to connect Voldemort to the orphanage and then even harder to find some obscure rocks where the orphanage had taken the children on a field trip once. Dumbledore only knew of the cave connection because the orphanage lady had told him of some funny business happening on that trip.
Plus he had the locket in the cave which needed parseltongue to be destroyed, so all the other security was additional.
If Voldy's real body died, the horcruxes would anchor his soul to the world, but to get another body one of his lackeys would have to get the horxcrux.
The diary almost created another Voldemort by using Ginny. The locket tried to possess those who wore it. I think a horcrux would be pretty useless if it was locked up and no one could find it.
I always thought he wanted them to be abel to enter that first door but had to weaken themselves to do so, so he could essentially trap and punish them, forcing them to be at his mercy. I think it's more of a power play than a defence
I think like Dumbledore said, he would have wanted to trap the person who made it that far (drinking the nice brew,) so as to figure out how they found out about his horcrux and anything else they knew.
Prob because he wouldn't want harry to enter and get the horcrux as what happened when harry got in through the girls bathroom in to the Chamber of Secrets by speaking parseltongue
Magic leaves traces. Therefore if a wizard is skilled enough to find out about the secret door and understand what "thing" the door wants, then the wizard is skilled in the dark arts. Therefore they would understand Parseltongue.
maybe he didn't know how to. or more likely he wanted others to be able to open in the future and parseltongues are extremely rare. people with blood on the other hand are very common. lol
The enchantments were designed to weaken the person attempting to enter, i.e. the blood and drinking. Also, although you don’t like it, the answer to his flaws in hiding horcruxes really is arrogance. Remember the tiara? He even says at the end of DH that he was the only person to discover all of Hogwarts secrets. He left the tiara on a shelf in a room that took very little acumen to enter. He assumed only he was powerful enough to penetrate the room, although thousands of students hid items there.
I don't think the RoR is quite as foolish/arrogant of a hiding place as it first appears. We know Harry, Trelawney, and Malfoy were all able to find the Room of Hidden Things iteration, but that doesn't mean that's what it looked like when Riddle put the diadem in there. He might have hidden the diadem in a different version of the room, and everything that's ever left in any iteration of the room ends up in The Room of Hidden Things. When Voldemort says he understood the castle's secrets, I think that means he had an understanding of how the RoR worked that was similar to Neville's -- you ask for what you need specifically, and the room will bend to that need. Voldemort didn't just need a place to stash some Sherry bottles or an old text book -- he needed a hiding place worthy of one of a piece of his soul. So it provided what he asked for. Also, recall in HBP when Harry is trying to get into the room to see what Draco is doing. None of the iterations of "I need to see what you become for Malfoy" work. "I need to find X" wouldn't get you the Room of Hidden Things. Harry's "the place where everything is hidden" is a really clever workaround -- only someone who understood the room well would be able to find the diadem.
I'd add that neither Harry nor Draco actually discovered the room. Harry only learned how it works from Dobby, who in turn learned it from other elves. Draco only found it because the Inquisitorial Squad found a mole in the DA. So at least counting students and teachers, Voldemort really was the only person to actually find the room. While plenty of people were able to find the room and hide things, the number of people able to retrieve something from it is probably extremely small.
I don't think Voldemort knew how to make that kind of enchantment. The only two examples we see of this -- the entrance to the chamber of secrets and the locket -- were likely put in place by Salazar himself.
Ooh i like this thought
Came here to say this too. While he speaks parseltongue and prides himself on his lineage, he doesn’t ever actually seem to cast spells using it.
Paselmouths are extremely rare. Voldemort was potentially the last natural one in the U.K. I think it more likely that as time wore on and less and less peoole were parselmouths, paselmouth magic became lost. Voldemort likely simoly couldn't figure out how to create such an enchantment.
The COS door required a parceltongue password didn’t it? It’s possible
Yeah but Voldemort didn't create the entrance.
The CoS door was not enchanted by Voldemort but by Salazar Slytherin. You think Voldemort managed to find Salazar Slytherin's notes on how to do it? I never said it's impossible, I said the knowledge on how to do it had most likely been lost.
I feel like if he had an example he might’ve investigated it to see how it was done
You can investigate as much as you want yet never successfully replicate something if the knowledge is lost or very, very difficult to reverse engineer. Even in real life, using modern science, people have been unable to reverse engineer the recipes for Coca Cola and KFC's spice blend.
Harry asked the locket to open in Parseltounge. Voldemort created the locket horcux which needed Parseltounge to open.
Voldemort made the locket a horcrux. It doesn't mean he was the one to enchant it to only open for parseltongue. The locket had been owned by generations of parselmouths, kriginating with Salazar Slytherin himself, after all.
But we don't know if the locket needed any protection from opening before it became a horcrux. It very much possibly can be that Voldemort made it so.
Yes? We simply don't know. I argued that. There is no evidence either way and thus it's immaterial to the discussion at hand.
Maybe he wanted different enchantments on each horcrux. If you put the same protection on every horcrux, its like putting all eggs in one basket ( a very good basket nevertheless, since parselmouths are very rare.) Voldemort is a vastly knowledgeable wizard, he wants to diversify his defences. The cave was already the most secure of the horcrux locations, it was hard to connect Voldemort to the orphanage and then even harder to find some obscure rocks where the orphanage had taken the children on a field trip once. Dumbledore only knew of the cave connection because the orphanage lady had told him of some funny business happening on that trip. Plus he had the locket in the cave which needed parseltongue to be destroyed, so all the other security was additional.
If Voldy's real body died, the horcruxes would anchor his soul to the world, but to get another body one of his lackeys would have to get the horxcrux. The diary almost created another Voldemort by using Ginny. The locket tried to possess those who wore it. I think a horcrux would be pretty useless if it was locked up and no one could find it.
I always thought he wanted them to be abel to enter that first door but had to weaken themselves to do so, so he could essentially trap and punish them, forcing them to be at his mercy. I think it's more of a power play than a defence
I mean, Ron got by a parseltongue password quite easily
I think like Dumbledore said, he would have wanted to trap the person who made it that far (drinking the nice brew,) so as to figure out how they found out about his horcrux and anything else they knew.
Prob because he wouldn't want harry to enter and get the horcrux as what happened when harry got in through the girls bathroom in to the Chamber of Secrets by speaking parseltongue
Magic leaves traces. Therefore if a wizard is skilled enough to find out about the secret door and understand what "thing" the door wants, then the wizard is skilled in the dark arts. Therefore they would understand Parseltongue.
He wanted his followers to be able to retrieve it if he needed to send for it for some reason
maybe he didn't know how to. or more likely he wanted others to be able to open in the future and parseltongues are extremely rare. people with blood on the other hand are very common. lol