[HPforGrownups] Re: Heliopaths

[Laura Ingalls Huntley]

No: HPFGUIDX 78785

Bohcoo:
>By saying, "there is a room," he is not even implying that it is the 
>ONLY locked room, IMHO. My take on it was that Dumbledore was simply 
>referring to one of the locked rooms, one among possibly several. The 
>room Dumbledore was talking about had nothing whatsoever to do with 
>the door that melted Harry's knife. 

I think you're making too strong of a statement here.  Try prefacing that last sentence with "I believe" or the like. ^_^

I'm not saying that your theory doesn't have merit, however.  I wouldn't be one bit surprised if Fudge really did have an army of heliopaths.  Except...for the life of me, I can't figure out why he would keep them in a locked room in the Department of Mysteries.  I think, of all the departments in the MoM, the DoM is definitely the one that Fudge has the *least* amount of control over, due to the fact that he's really too silly to understand any of it (and can you picture Fudge being able to boss around any of the Unspeakables we've seen/met so far?).  Plus, the kinds of experiments that they conduct probably outlive hoards of administrations before they peter out.  It simply wouldn't make sense if the Minister had any kind of active jurisdiction over the DoM.     

Also, I believe you mentioned in an earlier post that you thought that there wasn't anything in the Love (?) Room that would cause Harry's knife to melt, and, therefore, it must be a room full of heliopaths (or else something very hot).

However, I think it is more likely that what caused Harry's knife to melt was not the contents of the room (whether it be the Love Room or not), but the locking spell on the door.  It's a pretty standard thing in fantasy literature -- the hero/heroine comes across a magically locked door and tries their trusty lockpick on it, but the pick just melts and the hero/heroine is left feeling very silly and sucking on their fingers. 

Anyway, who's to say Fudge doesn't keep the corpses of all the goblins he's murdered in that room?

Laura (who really needs to go to bed, as she has a dentist appointment very early in the morning tomorrow.)


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