Department of Mysteries

[blaisezz]

No: HPFGUIDX 76389

(I'm still trying to catch up on posts, so forgive me if this has 
already been discussed!)

After finishing my third re-read of OotP, I got to thinking about the 
mysterious Department of Mysteries. There are twelve doors off the 
circular room, one of which leads back to the corridor, and the other 
eleven (I assume) lead into other rooms. Each of these rooms seem to 
represent a fundamental mystery of life:

1.	The room with the veil= death (even Dumbledore confirms this 
by calling it the death room)
2.	The room with the brains= human intelligence or possibly 
memories as that is what the brain attacks Ron with.
3.	The room with the planets= the wider Universe (?)
4.	The room with the time-turners= time
5.	The locked room = `a force that is at once more wonderful 
than and more terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the 
forces of nature'
love or human emotion
6.	The above quote makes me think there may be a room concerned 
with the forces of nature
7.	?
8.	?
9.	?
10.	?
11.	?
12.	The door back to the corridor

So what is behind the other doors? What other fundamental mysteries 
are there in our world? Also, if the `weapon' wasn't the prophecy (I 
am not sure about this myself), then which room is it in?

Another point is that the prophecies were held in a room leading off 
from the time room. The prophecies represent a solution to the 
mystery of time, telling us what will happen in the future. Ron notes 
in the brain room that `there are doors her too'. Do these doors also 
lead to an answer to the mystery the brain room contains? Is that why 
the love room is always kept locked, not just because it is so 
powerful but also because it must remain a mystery?

I personally found the whole of the Department of Mysteries thing 
very interesting, and am sure that it may prove key to the rest of 
Harry's story. Anyway there are my thoughts, how about you?

Ria