The Locked Room (Re: Great Battles of Book 7)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 162018

Bess: 
> After all, why would JKR drop in this "locked room" that none of
> the DA group could get into when at the MoM and then go into a
> nice interesting explanation of it if she never uses the room
> again.

Jen:  Hi Bess, welcome!  I'm rearranging your post because I wanted 
to address this part first.  The locked room gets my vote for the 
vanquishment of Voldemort, mainly for the reason you stated above.  
Plus I'd like to add a possible addition: Harry will learn to 
understand the power in that room better when he grows in his 
knowledge of Lily who worked at the DOM in my opinion.  Even if that 
bit isn't true, a locked door full of the power Voldemort knows not? 
That's too compelling to *not* have Voldemort come face to face with 
his doom there.  Love IS his downfall, the thing he's overlooked in 
every instance, his achilles heel, all the cliches you can think of 
<g>.  

The Veil had an important role in OOTP and served its main purpose 
there; I don't see it as the setting for the final battle between 
Harry and Voldemort.  It can be used for many other things including 
the destruction of the Horcruxes on the way to the Room of Love. 

Bess:
> But if Harry did get Voldemort into that locked room, then I would 
> say that the power and force in it would prevent Voldemort from 
> escaping it. I don't think Harry would be harmed by the room but
> Voldemort certainly would be! It would also a good way of 
> vanquishing Voldemort without Harry having to AK him.

Jen: No, I don't think Harry would be harmed by the room either 
since he is full of the power residing there.  He has already faced 
both the wonderful things about love Dumbledore alluded to, such as 
being born to very loving parents and finding friends who love him 
dearly *and* he has faced the 'terrible' side of love, the 
tremendous grief a person feels who has loved and lost.  Voldemort 
has had neither of these experiences, first by circumstance and then 
by choice.  The pain Harry felt being possessed by LV is how I 
imagine Voldemort feeling when he's in the locked room--terrible, 
excruciating pain, so much that he wishes to die??  That would be an 
interesting parallel. 

Another addition:  The gong spell by Dumbledore during his battle 
with Voldemort.  I'm not sure if this will play a role in the final 
battle, I'm thinking it might be how DD defeated Grindelwald, but 
I'm wondering if the power of that spell is a very weak version of 
the power in the room and that's why Dumbledore chose to try it out 
on Voldemort.  

Jen R. liking the Veil and all that but much more interested in 
seeing the locked room this time around.