What's in the locked room?

[Barry Arrowsmith]

No: HPFGUIDX 89016

A few observations.

When Harry and his merry  crew invade the  Ministry and find themselves 
in the ante-room of the Dept. of Mysteries, they are faced with "about  
a dozen" doors. Three they open. One is locked. One they entered by, 
leaving seven.

That makes the odds 6:1 that the door to the room that DD whitters on 
about is the one that they couldn't open; and that assumes that THE 
room connects directly to the ante-room anyway.

The door won't open to the 'Alohomora' spell, it doesn't respond to 
moderate force and it melts the blade of a *magical* penknife.

DD  claims that locked in a room is a force "more wonderful and more 
terrible than death, than human intelligence, than the forces of 
nature....the most mysterious of the many subjects..."  Guess what? I 
think there's some of JKR's fun and games going on here.

What did they find in the rooms?

The veil in the Death Chamber ...... "more terrible than death"

Brains in a tank........"than human intelligence"

Studies of time..... "mysterious  subjects"

The Planetarium....."forces of nature"

Hmm.
I don't  know  what's in the room they couldn't open, or what it was 
that melted  the knife. Probably a protective spell, not the mysterious 
force itself, if it was that powerful they'd have a hell of a job 
getting through the door to study it. But  when I look at the list 
above and think of what subject is missing, I don't go for love, or 
loyalty or heart or any of those things. It's bigger and more 
mysterious than any of those.

It's Life.
It's what Lily gave to Harry with her sacrifice.
"Ah!" you may say, "but Voldy wants to be immortal. How can Harry  be 
the opposite?"
Life is a lot more than avoiding death.

Think  about  it; it's Life-force vs. Death Eaters.

Kneasy