Poll : The Locked Room, What is in there? |
  Mar 30 2008, 05:20 PM
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QUOTE \"You know what could be in there?\" said Luna eagerly. One of the great unsolved mysteries is the aptly named Department of Mysteries. The room revolves to reveal different doors, or to disorient the unprepared visitor. There are the Brain Room, the Death Chamber with The Veil, the Hall of Prophecy, the Planet Room, the Time Room, and the Locked Room. We get to see what are in the other rooms because Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Luna and Ginny open the door to each room and go in. But we never get to see the Locked Room. QUOTE Harry approached a door at random and pushed. It did not move. OoTP p. 775.\"What\'s wrong?\" said Hermione. \"It\'s ... locked ...\" said Harry, throwing his weight at the door, but it did not budge. {snip} \"Sirius\'s knife!\" said Harry, and he pulled it out from inside his robes and slid it into the crack between the door and the wall. The others all watched eagerly as he ran it from top to bottom, withdrew it, and then flung his shoulder again at the door. It remained as firmly shut as ever. What was more, when Harry looked down at the knife, he saw that the blade had melted. Why is that door locked when all the others contain things that are very clearly powerfully magical or just plain powerful. The Time Room contains ... time itself? Perpetual time? A time loop? The Hall of Prophecy is obviously a very important yet vulnerable place, with all the Prophecies stored there but it is able to be accessed by the students. The Death Chamber is hugely important and in a sense dangerous and of course later will prove to be a tragic place. However, all these rooms can be opened. Why is the Locked Room locked? What is in it that is more powerful and important than in the other rooms of the DoM? Dumbledore says that the room contains love, which we know is very powerful and is ancient magic, and is what caused Harry to be the boy who lived, the only person ever known to have survived the AK. Was DD right, does the room contain pure love that is so powerful, and more powerful than anything in any of the other rooms, that it must be contained above all? Lily\'s sacrifice was an act of love. How does this compare to whatever is in the Locked Room? And how can it melt a knife blade? So what did you guys think when Harry pulled out Sirius\'s melted knife? 
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