On the musical note (heh), it could be a bit humorous, if he's practised his 'music' for years, believing himself to be really good and talented, but when he gets out everyone else thinks he's complete and utter shite .

Aekiel

 

Oh? How about getting proficient enough to escape the room? That would provide plenty of drive, wouldn't it?

 

ROFL. That would be fcking awesome lmao.

 

That drive would be lost after a brief, futile search. This is a thirteen to fourteen year old Harry, for fuck's sake.

Besides, his "research" for the 2nd Task of the Triwizard Tournament is just further proof of my point.

I also doubt wanting to be proficient enough to escape the room would lead Harry to learn things like flesh-rotting curses, magical shields and whatever else Indy!Harry usually learns.

The boy will just look for some unlocking spells, or some blasting curses, and likely start to lose the motivation after a few failed attempts. Then he will probably resign himself to spending his time just skimming through stuff due to boredom, and in the off-chance of finding something useful.

He won't be poring through every tome, and practicing every spell feverishly like his life depended on it. He is no Hermione, and neither is he an AU!Ravenclaw!Harry. You would do good to note that.

 

On the other hand, who wants to read about a Depressed!Harry whose synapses have slowed down through lack of use? A morbidly obese Harry that has taken to eating-as-entertainment, one that sleeps FAR too much, one that can't get excited about anything and who would rather daydream than act or react sounds Really Damn Boring to me.


edited to add:
Although failure-to-engage-in-any-useful-way IS a reasonable offshoot of canon!Harry, as we see in DH.

Post-Edited:
*vicious laughter*
Or we could have a spoiled-rotten Harry, one who has had the RoR produce nearly anything Harry could imagine in a wish, for years. :banana:

Can't you just HEAR Dumbledore grinding his teeth? All that maneuvering, all the carefully managed neglect, borderline abuse, all the emotional manipulation, down the excretory canal!
AD left Harry with the Dursleys because the Headmaster wanted a malleable child, one that he could condition into leaping into dangerous situations without hesitation or thought of self-preservation, because The Savior doesn't regard his own life as having much value. Suppose Harry manages (unintentionally) to reprogram his own thought patterns into a high degree of self-centered selfishness, a major lack of regard for others? Not a murderous psychosis, just indifference. No one was there to keep him emotionally invested in his friends, professors, and Dumbledore, so he reverted to a more usual mindset associated with children who grow up in emotionally detached environments.

A fourteen-year-old boy could come up with some interesting programming for "anatomically correct life-sized fully-articulated feels-just-like-the-real-thing" action figures...

 

I'm sorry...but who wouldn't want to be trapped in the Room of Requirement?

It'd be like paradise. You'd be a God in a room that can do anything you want it to...I could get at least several years of entertainment from such a place before I even began to get bored.

 

But the moron that is canon!Harry, especially Third/Fourth Year canon!Harry would probably take a year or so to figure out how the RoR works, and that's being optimistic.

I can honestly see him brooding in there for months, while slowly, very slowly finding out that the Room can actually, *gasp*, cater to well, almost everything you want.

Note that this isn't even a post-OOTP or post-HBP Harry we are talking about. We're dealing with a prepubescent here.

 

I doubt Harry would learn much in the way of combat spells. But if he tried to think of innovative ways to escape, I'm sure he could design the foundations of a very cool duelling style. It depends on what the author's aspirations are, really.

 

Hmm, as I see it, in the beginning, Harry would probably think it fun being trapped in the room, and therefore being very entertained for quite some time, being able to summon anything he wants. But after a time, he would want to get out, as isolation doesn't really seem to suit him in canon.

Eventually, after quite a long period of time, I would think that his desire to escape would begin to overshadow any other desires that he might have. And the room would act as such, and anything he asked for would relate back to his primary objective of escape. Which would in turn, make him more miserable, and his want to escape would effect the room more.

So as his underlying desire to find a way to escape increases, the room would start to build on that, slowly leaving him without anything but escape tools, which may or may not have anything to do with escaping the room itself. (Locksmith/Houdini Harry)

I hope I got my idea across at least somewhat, it looks rather like a gigantic run-on sentence to me...

 

Make this story into a Harry/Hogwarts-in-the-form-of-a-hot-female and it'll be made out of win.

After all, he IS in the Room of Requirement... And what do all teenage boys require?

Yup.

 

Heh, I bet some of the first charms he goes for are animation ones, so he can ask the room for an inanimate 'doll' (if you go with the idea that it can't provide living things) and then bring it to life. Not really all that special, but I can imagine him getting very good at various nifty charms like that.

Aekiel