Locked room poll

[davewitley]

No: HPFGUIDX 89083

First, I don't believe the answer's obvious; if it were, we would 
never have had a poll.

Second, I voted for love, as being the nearest thing to obvious 
here, based on what Dumbledore told Harry about Lily and her 
sacrifice back in PS.

However, I want to suggest a possibility not in the poll: life.  (I 
understand that if it's not in the poll then it hasn't been 
suggested here before.)

Life is the obvious(!) counterpoint to death, with which Dumbledore 
compares the contents of the room.

Whichever poll answer one selects, it is interesting to speculate as 
to the actual *contents* of the room.  The room devoted to time 
contained devices to measure and manipulate it, but not Time itself, 
whatever that is; the room (presumably) devoted to death contained a 
single gateway (presumably) leading to death but does not contain 
Death itself, whatever that is.

Thoughts?

David