OOP: Department of Mysteries

[Madeline Klink]

No: HPFGUIDX 62107

All right, I'm not new here, but very few of you
probably know me as I rarely post. I'm Flourish (also
known as Madeline Klink), and I'm 16 years old, from
Sacramento, California. I'm afraid I've probably
missed a couple things that have been discussed in the
hundreds of posts previous to mine (!) or the posts
that have undoubtedly been made while I typed this up
(!), but forgive me; hopefully I'm talking about
enough other stuff that it's worthwhile.
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The one thing that's really intrigued me overall is
the Department of Mysteries and specifically how each
room seems to hold a different "mystery." For
instance, the room with the bell jar held Time (or
possibly Growth? another force of nature? We won't
know till someone tries putting a clock in it).
Dumbledore insinuates that the closed-door room held
Love. The room with the brains in vats could have held
Memory, Thought, or even just the human brain (it's
enough of a mystery to qualify, I think), the room
with the prophecies held the Future, and the room with
the archway held Death.

What I'm wondering about here is whether there are
other doors and other things in the Department of
Mysteries, and what this could do to the plot of
future books when coupled with the Room of
Requirement. What are the limits on these things?
After re-re-rereading the book, I can see that J.K.
Rowling meant that Sirius's death is definitely final
and he won't become a ghost because he has fallen into
the physical manifestation of death and, well, you
just don't get out of that (Yes, he was just hit by a
Stunning Spell - but he passed through the veil
between life and death when he fell - I seemed to see
some people being confused by this). But what about
the wizard portraits? If Harry ran into the Room of
Requirement and really REALLY needed to talk to
Sirius, might he find something like a wizard portrait
of Sirius or a "Tom Riddle's diary" type of thing so
that he could make contact? (This could be a way for
JKR to cop out of actually having Sirius dead
forever). Was Luna's talk about hearing the voices
behind the veil simply something to comfort Harry
("Yes, there is an afterlife, so you'll eventually see
him,") or did it signify that if you have seen death
(only Neville, Harry, and Luna out of the students had
seen death, and only they could hear the voices) you
might have a chance of making contact with the dead
through the Death Room?

And furthermore... I really want to know what the
Death Room was originally used for, and what the
Prophecy Room was used for. The amphitheater thing
couldn't have been there just for effect. If wizards
have the death sentence, could that be where they do
it? (It doesn't seem like they do - Azkaban is
definitely a fate worse than death - but still). And
what use is keeping the prophecies if nobody but the
people they pertain to can see them? Obviously the
average witch or wizard doesn't know what's going on
in the Top Secret Department of Mysteries. So what if
you fulfill a prophecy, but you never find out,
because it's hidden in the DoM?

Just to go on a little further about the Room of
Requirement, it really intrigues me. What if it could
be used as the "Loading Program" (in The Matrix)? For
instance, Filch needs cleaning supplies, he looks in
the Room of Requirement and poof, they're there. He
can take them out and use them anywhere. So if you
needed, say, a copy of the Gutenberg Bible (though I
don't know why you would), you could go to the Room of
Requirement, and there'd be one more Gutenberg Bible
in the world. Or does it steal what it needs? Or can
it only give you things that are actually in existence
at Hogwarts? Otherwise, when Harry was very young, he
might have been able to find his parents there,
couldn't he?

This whole thing smacks of MAJOR PLOT POINT LATER. I'd
like to forward a theory: Something mentioned in the
Department of Mysteries, and the Room of Requirement,
will be a major plot point in book 6 or book 7!

"Flourish"

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"When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." - Hilaire Belloc
Madeline "Flourish" Klink || flourishnblotts at yahoo.com || blotts.org

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