Life was Re: Behind the Locked Door...Self Sacrifice

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 127628


 
> mallrat42g:
> Harry knows it is always locked, and knows that in 
> actuallity, because Dumbledore told him,(pp. 843-844): 
>  
> "It contains a force that is at once more wonderful and more 
> terrible than death, than human intelligence, than forces of 
> nature. It is also, perhaps, the most mysterious of the many 
subjects 
> for study that reside there. It is the power held within that room 
> that you possess in such quantities and which Voldemort has not at 
> all. That power took you to save Sirius tonight. That power also 
> saved you from possession by Voldemort, because he could not bear 
to 
> reside in a body so full of the force he detests. In the end, it 
> mattered not that you could not close your mind. It was your heart 
> that saved you." 
>  
> <snip> What is behind that door? Truth? Wisdom? Love? Does anyone 
> have a logical answer?



> tinglinger:
> 
> Self Sacrifice
> 
> Harry is always willing to put others before himself, a trait he
> inherited from his mother. It also is one of the reasons he is not
> cut out for Slytherin, as Phineas Nigellus tells Harry that all
> Slytherins are self serving and put their own interest above
> others {canon somewhere in OOP}. Does anyone here seriously think
> for a second that Voldemort would sacrifice himself to save a 
> Death Eater?
> 
> The self sacrifice attribute is nowhere near as common as the
> self serving one, and will not be found in Slytherin, but is as
> much a part of Harry as his mom is. 
> 
> It would not suprise me at all that learned wizards study this
> matter at the MoM, Noone has ever returned to say whether the 
> sacrifice was worth it or not or even why it was done. 


Kemper now:
I would argue that Self Sacrifice is a type of love... ranging from  
love of a child (Lily) to love of humanity (Jesus).

... back to behind the door...
We see in DoM the Mystery of the Universe, on a macro level, in RR 
the science of astro physics.  Is there a mystery on the micro level, 
which in the RR would be quantum physics?  Where Luna would have 
drifted around atoms instead of planets?  I think so.  It seems 
natural that the wizarding world would be aware and study the 
infinitely small as well as the infinitely huge.

The 'Mystery of the Brain' natural opposite seems to be the 'Mystery 
of the Heart'... another way of saying love.  And this has been 
discussed to death.

Death, it too is studied in the DoM.  It seems as though DoM would 
have its opposite as well: Life.  

My impression of the Archway and the Veil is that it intices people 
into it... sort of.  Harry hears whispers as does Luna, drawing them 
in.  

What if the Locked Door holds Life?  It's locked not to keep others 
out but to keep it in, because where Death draws in, Life explodes 
out. 


Kemper