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This whole chapter is so surreal.
It’s one of my favourite chapters in the whole series. The whole of the Department of Mysteries is so strange and beautiful to read - the time room where time can be held in jars and is never in order, the thoughts room with brains in a tank, the space room that has no gravity with perfect models of all the planets and astroids and stars, the Death room, the always-locked love room, the crazy-bizarre things that are in them, the rooms-within-rooms, and the spinning walls - it’s amazing.
This chapter is one of the most full in the series [it’s also the worst book-to-movie conversion as well - the movie was basically: Go into ministry, go to prophecys, go to death room, fight, the end], there are so many things that go on in it. There are so many worlds within those rooms, so many complex things that we don’t even know if they’re truly there, it’s the science of magic, the things even Wizards don’t understand. It’s really deep stuff.
We also learn a lot about the “silver trio” - We see just how much the loss of Neville’s parents meant to him, and we see for the first time how brave he truly his when he is willing to sacrifice himself for the prophecy and he stands up to Bellatrix. We see how much Luna appreciates her friends, the only one’s she has, when she looks after Hermione and goes back to help Ginny. We also see how determined Ginny is to protect Harry and to take charge.
(via frivisms)