[HPforGrownups] The Department of Mysteries

[ambiree at students.bradley.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 81629

Don't forget the BRAIN room...I would think there that they studied thought. 
And too that was where Ron was attacked and they said that thoughts leave worse 
scars that other injuries....hmmm

amber


Quoting Eric Oppen <oppen at mycns.net>:

> 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?
> 
> 
Amber

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