Why is it locked?

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 72796

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:
> Regarding the room at the Department of Mysteries that Dumbledore 
>says is kept locked at all times, and Harry tries unsuccessfully to 
>open with the knife Sirius gave him--why is it locked?  If this room 
>indeed contains love (or some form of love), why is it locked?  To 
>keep people out, or to keep love in?  What would happen if it 
>weren't locked?  And it's not just locked, but apparently protected 
>against magical opening devices, like the knife.  

Well someone has posed a theory that the room isn't locked, but 
instead that the members of the sextet don't know how to open it and 
that it actually requires two people in love with each other and 
working together to actually open it.

>The room with the veil (death) wasn't locked.  Surely death is more 
>dangerous than love.  

You would think so however Dumbledore has said that love is the very 
basis of magic and it was love from Lily's sacrifice that allowed her 
son to escape the Avada Kedavra curse(death) so you could say that 
love is indeed sometimes stronger than death.