What was Luna going to say?
sofdog_2000
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Thu Oct 9 15:38:42 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 82586
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sylviablundell2001"
<sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
> Forgive me if this has been mentioned before, but I was wondering
if
> we missed something important due to Hermione's uncharacteristic
> arrogance. Referring to the locked door in the Department of
> Mysteries, Luna says "You know what could be in there?" Hermione
> brushes this aside with the sotto voce comment to
Neville "Something
> blibbering, no doubt" and we never get to hear what Luna thought
> could be behind the door. Later, things start happening so fast
that
> no one ever gets to ask what she meant, supposing anyone was
> interested. I can't help feeling that they might have missed the
> chance of finding out something important.
> Sylvia (who really likes Luna and hopes she will be the one to put
> Harry together again)
Sof:
Dumbledore comments on this on pg. 843 US edition: "There is a room
in the Department of Mysteries ," interrupted Dumbledore," 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. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the
many subjects for study that reside there. It is the power held
within that room that you possess in such quantities and which
Voldemort has not at all. That power took you to save Sirius
tonight..."
So, this must be the Room of Love that they couldn't enter. Makes
sense to keep it locked. As Aphrodite once put in "Xena: Warrior
Princess" 'don't play with the passion, that stuff's volatile!'
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