The Ministry's Bombs <- Dr. Frankenstein doesn't live here anymore.

[i_tuan]

No: HPFGUIDX 72515

> Danger Mouse:
> Rowling has showed us the nuclear bombs of the wizarding world, and those capable 
> of using them. Is it ethical for the Ministry to create big vats of Love and Time, and a 
> sheet of Death? I don't think so; I think it's going too far, and who knows what other 
> things the Department of Mysteries contains... I think that they're tampering with 
> forces that are too intimate to ourselves and intrinsic to the Universe, and that it's 
> going to disastrous in the end. 

Wow.  Death, Time, and Love were manufactured by the Ministry as Weapons of Mass 
Destruction?  NOTHING suggests that these are anything other than *exactly" what one 
would expect to find in the Department of Mysteries:  they are legitimate, bona-fide 
mysteries.

They are, in fact, "THE Mysteries", the core mysteries of human experience - 
inscrutable, ineffable, irreducible. They produce complex reactions in us humans when 
we encounter them, but this is the first time I've heard of someone responding to them 
with shock and disgust.  Love is disgusting?  Time is shocking?

I don't get your take on all this as weaponry of the WMD variety.  If these are weapons, 
too bad no-one thought to push Moldy Voldy into the Love Vat while he was standing 
right there, eh?  Would he have melted, like the Wicked Witch of the West?

Certainly, love has been used as a weapon, but only by free-lancers;  and I suppose 
time could be used as a weapon, if one waited long enough...but death as a weapon - 
that really makes my head spin!

I say:  Hats off to the folk in the Dept. o' Mysteries for having the guts to take one the 
Real Thing.