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

[Bess Chilver]

No: HPFGUIDX 162031

Hi Jen,
 
>>Jen: 
>>Hi Bess, welcome! I'm rearranging your post because I wanted 
>>to address this part first.
 
I have absolutely no problem  with rearranging my posts!  Many thanks
for your kind welcome. I was afraid I'd made a bit of a mistake as
someone else managed to come up with exactly what I had thought about
the Locked Room and posted their theory before mine was posted.
 
>>Jen:
>> 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>. 


I think we know too little of Lily's life between school and her death
(and this applies a bit to James too) to do anything other than pure
conjecture.  I do think we will learn a whole lot more about Lily in
book 7 and that will probably be relevant and may well help Harry with
what he has to do.  Would certainly be very nice to learn exactly what
Lily and James did - especially how they thwarted/escaped Voldemort 3
times and WHY! 
 
I think it would be such poetic justice for Voldemort to be vanquished
by the power he so despises.

>>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. 
 
Absolutely - I think the only reason we may see The Veil again is to
find out who and what the voices are and why they are there. Luna may
well be important for that. Not sure if the veil could be used to
destroy the horcruxes. It may not be as simple as throwing the object
behind the veil and hoping that the bit of "soul" is then "dead". Again,
I think we don't have enough information in the books as to what is
needed to destroy the horcrux. Sometimes it is relatively easy as per
the Basilisk tooth stabbing the book, but in other cases it can cause
serious injury such as the damage to DD's arm (and one could argue
drinking the potion! I suppose then facing a Basilisk is just as risky
but the actual destruction of the horcrux book was on its own relatively
simple!).
 
Would be poetic justice if Neville could somehow get Bellatrix through
the Veil. I am sure he is destined to "vanquish" her! 
 
>>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. 


Not sure whether Vodemort would actually wish to die - after all his
whole life and existence has been devoted to NOT dying. Its almost the
animal instinct to survive simply because when it really comes down to
it, Voldemort is terrified of death. What will he see/experience if he
went into the Locked Room???
 
What will be very interesting is how Harry would be able to get
Voldemort to the Locked Room.  I don't think the last battle will start
there. Maybe Harry (or rather Hermione as she is probably bright enough
to figure out how to do it) will set up a portkey. This could be rather
ironic if H/Hr can work together to trick Voldemort to touch something
that is actually a portkey and will transport him to the MoM/Locked
Room. Alternatively, perhaps Harry could do precisely what Voldemort did
to him and manage to trick V into going to the MoM in the same way that
V tricked Harry in Phoenix. That too would be rather ironic!
Though in either scenario, would Voldemort appreciate the irony?
Dumbledore probably would do!
 
>>Jen:
>>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. 


I am wondering if the history of Grindelwald and how DD defeated him
will come out in Book 7. I think it could be rather relevant in giving
clues to Harry, Hr and R. 
 
Thanks again for the welcome. Not sure how often I will be posting - I
have a lot of other mailing lists and Livejournal that I look at (from a
historical costuming point of view) plus MAKING costumes which needs to
start about now to be ready for next summer!
 
Best wishes,
 
Bess
(www.myladyswardrobe.com


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