What was Luna going to say?

scoutmom21113 navarro198 at hotmail.com
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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