OOP: Mysteries SPOILERS!

[Rachael]

No: HPFGUIDX 64414

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kslivlib" <kslivlib at y...> 
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The following post has been snipped quite a bit to save space:
 
> Let's take a look at some of the rooms. (Not in any particular 
order 
> as I don't have my book with me.)  The first one that comes to mind 
> is the brain room.  > Next, the room that comes to mind is the time 
room.  > Then there is the space room.  > The room of Prophecies.  > 

Kelly (who wonders what you would have to make on your O.W.L.s to be 
> an Unspeakable.)

Now Me:

When Dumbledore is explaining everything to Harry he says "There is a 
room in the Department of Mysteries...that is kept locked at all 
times.  It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more 
terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of nature."

If we were to place these labels with the rooms we have seen in the 
DOM, the room with the veil and the arch is death, the brains is 
human intelligence, and I'm not sure on the last one.  Since ForceS 
is plural, it might refer to more than one room with Time and Space 
both being forces of nature.  Dumbledore further states that the 
force in the locked room is "the most mysterious of the many subjects 
for study that reside there."  I would take this, in conjunction with 
Nick's comment of DoM studying death, to mean that all items in the 
DoM are there for study, including the prophecies (though how they 
study something they can't pick up, I still haven't worked out)