Dumbledore said this to Harry near the end of the book: "There is a room in the Department of Mysteries 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, 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."
Its very clear that Dumbledore is saying that the room contains love. I thought this would be brought up in the 7th book, but it wasn't. Has this room been mentioned anywhere else in the books? _________________ RON: You try putting up tinsel when Peeves has got the other end and is trying to strangle you with it.
DUMBLEDORE: It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
The room is about love!
There was a room of death
a room of time
a room of fate (prohcy)
a room of life (im guessing) _________________
"Foolish Brother, If you want to kill me..then hate...Spite and survive Pathetically, Run and Run, and cling desperately to Life"
tHE DoM's room contents have been discussed many times _________________
"Foolish Brother, If you want to kill me..then hate...Spite and survive Pathetically, Run and Run, and cling desperately to Life"
how can love be contained in a room?
or anything that symbolizes love?
i cant imagine what object that symbolizes love would be worthy of ministry attention _________________
I love my handsome Erik
How would they have gotten "love" in the room in the first place? It gives me the weird idea that ministry officials go around, sucking the "love" out of people. _________________
my only explanation is that the statement "love is contained in that room" is metaphorical. sort of like "time is contained in that room", in that room full of time turners. but for what object "love" is a metaphor, i wouldnt know. _________________
I love my handsome Erik
Well how about memories of people that had lot's of love. Like the brain room it had brains filled with memories. that's my best guess. _________________ HP & LV= DEAD
JKR answered this question. In the room they study love.
PotterCast 131
J.K. Rowling Interview Transcript
Quote:
SU: Well, we have a lot of questions still for you, Jo. Like stuff about that mysterious Department of Mysteries. Can you tell us what was in the Love room? (MA: Oh yeah.) I mean…
MA: (laughs) We’ll just call it the Love room.
JKR: (laughs) What was that mysterious room we don’t know what it was in- the Love room? Yes, it was the…
SU: Yeah. (All laugh) Thank you. (JKR: Well…) See, I told you, I’m in Hufflepuff, you know I’m not…
JKR: No, no, no, I think what’s in the Love room, it’s the place where they study what love means. So that room, I believe, would have at its center a kind of fountain or well containing a love potion, a very powerful love potion. You know that the first time they ever enter Slughorn’s Potions (SU: Yes.) class, and he starts talking about Amortentia, the love potion, and he says it’s the most dangerous one in the room, well, that’s what they would have found in the Love room.
SU: Oh…
JN: Interesting.
JKR: So you would see wizards and witches taking it, they would study the effects. The room of course has to be locked. And, you know, again, there’s this thread running through the books, what love does, and it raises people to the heights of absolute heroism, (SU: It does.) as in Lily, Harry, Neville, and it also leads them into acts of foolishness and even evil, which is Bellatrix and also Dumbledore. He became foolish, he lost his center, his moral center, when he became infatuated. So that’s what it does, that’s what makes it dangerous. In Bellatrix it was- as I think is clear, but I doubt that people will be particularly shocked to hear- because I’m sure they’ve deduced that Bellatrix is madly romantically in love with Voldemort. This is, that’s the obsession of her life. (SU: Yeah, yeah.) And I believe that Helena Bonham Carter had to be asked to tone it down after she was- (All laugh) the producer called me and said, “Give me some background on Bellatrix so we can tell Helena about it,” and I said, “Well, of course, it’s a sexual attraction, she’s madly in love with this man and obsessed by him.” (laughs) And apparently, they had to ask her to bring it down because she was being a bit too sexy. (ma laughs)
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