The Department of Mysteries

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 81626

So, what does the Department of Mysteries do?  I think that they study the
"mysteries" that have intrigued people since we became people.  (My
girlfriend piped up that she thought they sat around all day reading Agatha
Christie, Erle Stanley Gardner, and other such authors, and I pointed out to
her that she must be thinking of where _she_ worked at the time)

The rooms we've seen are not all the rooms there are there, but I think I
have an idea of what they were studying in each of them.

Room with Time-Turners---Time.
Room with Black Veil---Death
Room with Prophecies---the Future
Room with Planets---Space

So what was in the room they couldn't get into?

I think that it was the room that contained the force that Dumbledore said
was incredibly powerful, and could vanquish Lord Voldemort.  I think that's
the room where they study Love.  (My first thought, when Dumbledore said
that it was incredibly powerful, and thinking of that heavy lock that
defeated Sirius' knife, was that the room contained Money...but I don't
think that would exactly be what Dumbledore was thinking of)

So, I think I've got a handle on what's behind five of the doors at the DoM.
I wonder what the other ones were?  Does anybody have any ideas about the
other ones?  Are there twelve traditional "mysteries of life" that might be
studied at the DoM?