Department of Mysteries

[daluben4]

No: HPFGUIDX 76656

blaisezz (Ria) wrote:
>... 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
>...


An interesting thought that occurred to me is that all 
these "mysteries" may be tied up in one central theme: Death.  JKR 
has said that death is very important and that we'd learn more about 
it.  Don't have specific quotes handy.  But, the point is: Studying 
the process of dying (the Death Room), human mind/consciousness (the 
Brain Room), the nature of time (the Time-Turner Room), and the 
Universe at large (the Planet Room) could all be associated with 
trying to understand what it means to be alive and, at some point, 
die.  That doesn't explain the "Powerful Force" room (although love 
does seem to be the main thing that links us to people who have died) 
nor the remaining unidentified rooms, though.

Also, on a possibly related note, we know that Voldemort has been 
trying to conquer death.  He was doing it before he took on Harry, 
and that's why (or so we are led to believe) he didn't actually DIE 
when his own A.K. curse backfired on him.  So, maybe Voldemort has 
some connection to the MoM's research on death or, at least, maybe 
we're getting a hint that overcoming death is a major fascination for 
the wizarding community.