Harry's Protection (was Re: Questions)

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No: HPFGUIDX 119219



Kneasy snipped:

Consider the Dept. of Mysteries and the rooms the kids go through.
Compare these with what DD has to say about what isn't in the
Locked Room:
"More wonderful and more terrible than Death (the Death Chamber),
than human intelligence (the brain tank), than the forces of nature
(the planetary system)."
Throw in the paradoxes of Time as another make-weight mystery.

To my mind what fits very well into this little list of subjects 
suitable
for the study of the mysterious isn't love but the mystery of life 
itself.
And when you recall that Voldy is about death (Death Eaters) and by
attempting immortality is trying to circumvent natural life as we know
it - well, I think I'm in with a fighting chance of being right.

Just how she's going to relate this to Harry is something I haven't
quite figured out yet.

Snow:

Another great thought from Kneasy! You always get me thinking and I 
believe I found an almost undetectable play in wording (don't know 
what else to call it) from Jo. Lets look at the entire statement made 
by DD:

OOP- "There is a room in the Department of Mysteries," [
], "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 the power held within that room that you 
possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at all."  

A force that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death

to live forever! To live forever would be wonderful until everyone 
you have known has died.

A force that is more wonderful and more terrible than human 
intelligence
you would know everything! But who would you have to 
talk with if everyone is beneath your intellect?

How about more wonderful and more terrible than forces of nature
It 
would be like the beauty of the sea until the storm turns her into a 
devastating monster.

The one thing that each of these statements maintain is the wonderful 
and terrible consequence. They are also something akin to what 
Dumbledore was speaking of in the end of the first book:

SS- "
You know, the Stone was really not such a wonderful thing. As 
much money and life as you could want! The two things most human 
beings would choose above all- the trouble is, humans do have a knack 
of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them."

The Stone and all it had to offer was not such a wonderful thing 
because it had its terrible side also. 

The room at the DOM is said to 'contain' this force
but it is also 
said that it is the 'power' that is 'held within this room' that 
Harry possesses in such great quantity that Voldemort detests. The 
room therefore contains a force 'and' holds a power. We may be 
dealing with two separate states of matter; the one that Harry 
possesses and the one contained in the room. 

Harry has already used this power when thwarting Voldemort's attempt 
to steal the Stone, which Dumbledore was "afraid" that the attempt 
killed him:

SS- "I feared I might be too late."
"You nearly were, I couldn't have kept him off the Stone much longer-
" 
"Not the Stone, boy, you- the effort involved nearly killed you. For 
one terrible moment there, I was afraid it had."

The power Harry had that night attempting to protect the Stone is the 
same power that is held within the room at the DOM. Harry's fight 
almost killed him that night but then again he was only eleven or so. 
The force that is contained in that same room must have to deal with 
immortality, given the previous quote from Dumbledore about the Stone 
not being such a wonderful thing etc. 

In the end my suspicions would be that immortality is the force that 
can be more wonderful and terrible and the power is `pure' self-
sacrificing protection. 

Snow