[HPforGrownups] Re: Department of Mysteries Locked Room

[charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 117518

From: "snow15145"
>> > Glavgirl:
>>
>> 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.
>>
<snip>

>> -Nepenthales
>> 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*.

<and another snip>

> Snow:
>
> Could it be that the door is locked out of protection? Is this
> symbolized by the way Harry (the one who has so much of the power
> within this room) is locked away from the wizarding world in a closet
> under the stairs in a muggle home protected by his mother's sacrifice
> and compounded with Dumbledore's added protection?

charme, now:

I had a deja vu moment when I read these posts about the DoM Locked Room. 
Specifically, my otherwise memory repeat is attributed to all the great 
quotes about truth, which is what I believe is locked away (or hidden, if 
you will) in that room. DD's reference in OoP to the locked room containing 
something "more wonderful and terrible than death...than human intelligence, 
than forces of nature" could lead me to believe it's love, but I think truth 
is interlinked with love. I also think that door will open in Book 7, when 
the final twists and turns of the septology is revealed. Hence why the door 
is locked.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth 
of truths is love (Phillip James Bailey)
Truth is truth. To the end of reckoning. (Shakespeare, who has sooo many 
references to truth in his plays that one wonders how any truth can be kept 
hidden)
Great is truth, and mighty above all things (Bible - New Testament)
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.  (Blaise 
Pascal)

And those are just a sample of the many, many quotations about "truth." 
Notice as well, truth is also linked with love and justice.  Of course, 
everyone's free to think I've lost my mind....(I probably have) :)

charme