Department of Mysteries Locked Room

[Andrew]

No: HPFGUIDX 117443


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "glavgirl" <zacksmom3 at b...> 
wrote:
> 
> Glavgirl:
> In the end of the book, Dumbledore told Harry that there was a 
> locked room in the Department of Mysteries that holds that power 
> that Harry possess.  We know it was his heart that kept Voldemort 
> from possessing him for any amount of time.  Any ideas on 
> what "power" is behind the locked door?  It would be hard to lock 
> up feelings in a room.  Especially something that would melt a 
> knife.

The door has always left me perplexed.  Many people (myself included) 
have surmised from Dumbledore's speech at the end of the book that 
the "power" in that room is love, or compassion, or some other 
similar thing.  This makes some sense, but it seems incomplete or 
somehow only partially realized to me.

The question that comes to my mind when I read the passages about the 
door isn't about what is beyond it.  I'm more interested in knowing 
*why is the door locked*.  There is apparently some significant 
interest in keeping the contents of this room under lock and key, but 
why?  What in this room is more dangerous or important than the veil 
in the Death Chamber, the time-turners, and the prophecies?

-Nepenthales
Who really should be working.