Dept. of Mysteries, "Love" room.

[greg_a126]

No: HPFGUIDX 130192

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eggplant107" 
<eggplant107 at h...> wrote:
> "niekycrins" <n.crins at p...> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I hope it's more than just love, otherwise the story could get so
> sweet we'd all get diabetes.  Love probably has something to do 
with
> it but there must be something more than that because Dumbledore 
says
> it is not only more wonderful than death it is more terrible too.
> Perhaps courage and skill and sacrifice and "old magic" and 
something
> else that's hard to put a finger on; I guess you could say the room
> contains The Right Stuff. So why is it locked? I don't think the
> wizards locked it and are in fact trying to unlock it but without
> success. I think in book 7 Harry will find a way to unlock it,
> something even Dumbledore couldn't do. He knows that opening the 
door
> is the only way to destroy Voldemort but Harry also knows that if 
he
> does so he will die too; remember that powerful "old magic" 
involves
> sacrifice. I predict that in the second to last chapter of book 7
> entitled "The Man Who Died", the one just before epilog where the
> adult lives of the surviving characters are described, he opens 
that
> door and Harry Potter is no more.   
> 
> Eggplant


Just for anyone reading the thread, this isn't exactly on the 
thread's original topic so much as a reply to this individual post.

The Harry Potter series is currently on track to be an all-time 
classic, destined to be read by all future generations.  If Harry, 
Ron or Hermione dies at the end of book 7 (or any point in between) 
the peole who bought it and have been reading the whole series will 
read it, and that will be the end of Harry Potter.  

What parent wants to sit down with their 8 year old, and read over 
2,500 pages of book about a hero who dies at the end?  In order for 
this book to entire the list of all time classics, good has to 
triumph over evil.  That means Harry has to beat Voldemort, 
not "tie" him by dying with him.  Dumbledore giving his life for 
Voldemort's would be one thing.  Dumbledore's lived a long and full 
life.  Harry's just going to be 17.  If Harry, Ron or Hermione dies, 
I'll throw my 7 books away and never look at anything Harry Potter 
ever again.  If good wins, I'll read them to my kids one day.  JKR 
has to know that.