What was Luna going to say?
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Thu Oct 9 15:57:40 UTC 2003
No: HPFGUIDX 82590
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sofdog_2000"
<sofdog_2000 at y...> wrote:
> Sylvia 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. <snip> > 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!'
There were a lot of doors there. Are Dumbledore and Luna talking
about the same door??
Ravenclaw Bookworm
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