Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 129865

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "niekycrins" <n.crins at p...> 
wrote:

Nieky:
> Just wondering, why would this room, containing a force that is 
needed
> to conquer VM, be closed and apparently protected?
> 
> Why not "unleash" it on LV while he was in the DOM?

geoff:
I don't think that we are told that this power will 
actually "conquer" Voldemort in a physical sense....

"There is a room in the Department of Mysteries," interrupted 
Dumbledore, "that is kept locked at all times. It contains a force 
that is at once more wonderful and more terrible than death, than 
human intelligence, then the forces of nature. It is alos, perhaps, 
the most mysterious of the many subjects for study that reside there. 
It is the power held within that room thatyou 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."
(OOTP "The Lost Prophecy" p.743 UK edition)

This force doesn't sound as if it is some sort of weapon - like a 
hand grenade - that you can hurl at Voldemort. It is obviously some 
sort of power which is held personally by someone. There have been 
various suggestions as to what it might be but I believe it is 
something intangible; it can't be handled or picked up or handed 
around. My own vote, for what it's worth is love; others as I know 
from the past will have differing ideas....