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|location=Level 9, [[Department of Mysteries]], [[British Ministry of Magic Headquarters|Ministry of Magic]]<ref name="OOTP34"/>
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{{Quote|They were standing in a large, circular room. Everything in here was black including the floor and ceiling -- identical, unmarked, handle-less black doors were set at intervals all around the black walls, interspered with branches of candles whose flames burned blue, their cool, shimmering light reflected in the sining marble floor so that it looked as so there as dark water underfoot.|Description.|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
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{{Quote|They were standing in a large, circular room. Everything in here was black including the floor and ceiling; identical, unmarked, handleless black doors were set at intervals all around the black walls, interspersed with branches of candles whose flames burned blue; their cool, shimmering light reflected in the shining marble floor made it look as though there was dark water underfoot.|Description|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
This '''room''' is a circular room in the [[Department of Mysteries]]. It is located on the ninth level of the [[British Ministry of Magic Headquarters|Ministry of Magic]] in [[Whitehall]], [[London]]. Many doors lead off of this room to other places within the Department.
 
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The '''Room of Doors'''<ref name="script">See [http://atrossbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Harry-Potter-and-the-Order-of-the-Phoenix-2nd-draft.pdf this early script] of the fifth film.</ref> was a circular room in the [[Department of Mysteries]]. It was located on the ninth level of the [[British Ministry of Magic Headquarters|Ministry of Magic]] in [[Whitehall]], [[London]]. Many doors led off of this room to other places within the Department.<ref name="OOTP34"/>
   
 
==Description==
 
==Description==
[[File:Dpt_of_Mysteries.jpg|thumb|270px|The corridor leading to the [[Department of Mysteries]], through that door is the circular Entrance Room.]]This chamber is a large, circular room where everything black. There are identical, unmarked, handle-less black doors are set at intervals around in walls. It has a highly polished black floor that looks almost like standing water and twelve handleless doors. Whenever a door closes, the walls rotate, making it impossible to determine which door is which.
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[[File:Department of Mysteries.png|thumb|270px|The corridor leading to the [[Department of Mysteries]]; through that door was the circular Entrance Room]]
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This chamber was a large, circular room where everything was black. There were twelve identical, unmarked, black doors without handles set at intervals around in the walls. It had a highly polished black floor that looked almost like standing [[water]]. Whenever a door closed, the walls would rotate, making it impossible to determine which door was which.<ref name="OOTP34">{{OOTP|B|34}}</ref>
   
Dimly lit by blue flamed branches of candles hang on the walls. Whenever one of its doors is shut, the room's walls rotate, disorienting its occupants for several seconds. This is presumably a security device to keep non-employees of the department from reaching a desired room. The room responds to a verbal request for an exit by opening the correct door.
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The room was dimly lit by blue [[Fire|flamed]] branches of [[candle]]s that hung on the walls. Whenever one of its doors was shut, the room's walls would rotate, disorienting its occupants for several seconds. This was presumably a security device to keep non-employees of the department from reaching a desired room.<ref name="OOTP34"/> The room responded to a verbal request for an exit by opening the correct door.<ref name="OOTP36">{{OOTP|B|36}}</ref>
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There are twelve doors leading off the Entrance Room. The known doors leading into other Chambers are the following:
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There were twelve doors leading off the Entrance Room, and some of the chambers that the doors led to included:
*[[Brain Room]]
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*[[Brain Room]]<ref name="OOTP34"/>
*[[Death Chamber]]
 
*[[Space Chamber]]
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*[[Death Chamber]]<ref name="OOTP34"/>
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*[[Department of Mysteries#Space Chamber|Space Chamber]]<ref name="OOTP34"/>
*[[Love Chamber]] (The Ever-Locked Room)
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*[[Love Room]] (The Ever-Locked Room)<ref name="OOTP34"/>
*[[Time Chamber]] (one takes a door in here to the [[Hall of Prophecy]])
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*[[Time Room]] (and a door to the [[Hall of Prophecy]] within the Time Room)<ref name="OOTP34"/>
*Door leading back to the level nine corridor
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*Door leading back to the level nine corridor<ref name="OOTP34"/>
   
 
==History==
 
==History==
 
===Early History===
 
===Early History===
Not much is known about this room before [[1996]], but it presumably where the[[Unspeakable| Unspeakables]] (employees of the Department of Mysteries) would enter before entering the room in which they worked.
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Not much was known about this room before [[1996]], but it was presumably where the [[Unspeakable]]s (employees of the Department of Mysteries) would enter before entering the room in which they worked.
   
 
===Search for Sirius===
 
===Search for Sirius===
In [[1996]], [[Harry Potter]], [[Hermione Granger]], [[Ronald Weasley|Ron]] and [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]], [[Neville Longbottom]], and [[Luna Lovegood]] arrived in the [[Department of Mysteries]] in search of [[Sirius Black]]. They enter a door at the end of the corridor Harry had been dreaming about for months, and the six [[Dumbledore's Army]] found themselves in the [[Department of Mysteries]]'s entrance room, a circular room with twelve identicle doors. Harry is unsure of which door to choose, and as soon as the door behind them closed, the walls of the room rotated. When the doors came to a standstill, the group entered through one them, but this turned out to be the [[Brain Room]], a room with a large tank full of floating brains, and so they went back into the Entrance Room.
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In [[1996]], [[Harry Potter]], [[Hermione Granger]], [[Ronald Weasley|Ron]] and [[Ginevra Weasley|Ginny Weasley]], [[Neville Longbottom]], and [[Luna Lovegood]] arrived in the [[Department of Mysteries]] in search of [[Sirius Black]]. They entered a door at the end of the corridor Harry had been dreaming about for months, and the six [[Dumbledore's Army]] members found themselves in the [[Department of Mysteries]]'s entrance room, a circular room with twelve identical doors. Harry was unsure of which door to choose, and as soon as the door behind them closed, the walls of the room rotated. When the doors came to a standstill, the group entered through one them, but this turned out to be the [[Brain Room]], a room with a large tank full of floating brains, and so they went back into the Entrance Room.<ref name="OOTP34"/>
   
{{Quote|She drew with her wand in midair and a fiery X appeared on the door. No sooner had the door clicked shut behind them than there was a great rumbling, and once again the wall began to revolve very fast, but now there was a great red-gold blur in amongst the fait blue, and when all became still again, the fiery cross still burned, showing the door they had already tried|[[Hermione Granger]]'s clever idea to use the [[Flagrate]] spell|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
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{{Quote|She drew with her [[Hermione Granger's wand|wand]] in midair and a fiery X appeared on the door. No sooner had the door clicked shut behind them than there was a great rumbling, and once again the wall began to revolve very fast, but now there was a great red-gold blur in amongst the fait blue, and when all became still again, the fiery cross still burned, showing the door they had already tried|[[Hermione Granger]]'s clever idea to use the [[Flagrate]] spell|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
   
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[[File:Veil_-_Death_Chamber.jpg|thumb|left|The veil in the Death Chamber|250x250px]]
[[File:Veil_-_Death_Chamber.jpg|thumb|left|The veil in the Death Chamber]]Intelligently, Hermione casts the [[Flagrate]] spell on the door they came out and labeled it with fiery X, so that they will know they have already looked there when the room spins once more. The next room they try is the [[Death Chamber]], a large stone amphitheater with an ancient stone archway on a raised dais at the center is. On the archway is a tattered veil fluttering in some unseen wind. Hermione, in particular, seems frightened, and calls Harry back to the circular room.
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Intelligently, Hermione cast the ''[[Flagrate]]'' spell on the door they came out and labelled it with a fiery X, so that they would know they had already looked through that door when the room span once more. The next room they tried was the [[Death Chamber]], a large stone amphitheatre with an ancient stone archway on a raised dais at the centre. On the archway was a tattered veil fluttering in some unseen wind. Hermione, in particular, seemed frightened, and called Harry back to the circular room.<ref name="OOTP34"/>
   
[[File:Prophecy_copy.png|thumb|258px|Harry holding [[Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy|the prophecy about him and Voldemort]]]]
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[[File:Prophecy_copy.png|250x250px|thumb|Harry holding [[Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy|the prophecy about him and Voldemort]]]]
   
The next doorway refuses to open; Harry uses [[Sirius Black's knife|Sirius' knife]] that will "open any door", but the door remains shut and the knife's blade melts away. Going through the next door they choose, Harry recognizes the sparkling, shimmering light from his dreams: the [[Time Chamber]]. Passing through this room, they reach the huge chamber containing the shelves loaded with glass orbs that Harry recognizes from his dream: The [[Hall of Prophecy]]. The students are ambushed by [[Death Eaters]] in this room, and ended up fleeing through multiple chambers in the Department.
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The next doorway refused to open; Harry used [[Sirius Black's penknife|Sirius' knife]] that would "open any door", but the door remained shut and the knife's blade melted away. Going through the next door they chose, Harry recognised the sparkling, shimmering light from his dreams: the [[Department of Mysteries#Time Chamber|Time Chamber]]. Passing through this room, they reached the huge chamber containing the shelves loaded with glass orbs that Harry recognised from his dream: the [[Hall of Prophecy]].<ref name="OOTP34"/> The students were ambushed by [[Death Eaters]] in this room, and ended up fleeing through multiple chambers in the Department.<ref name="OOTP35"/>
   
 
===Battle of the Department of Mysteries===
 
===Battle of the Department of Mysteries===
 
{{Main|Battle of the Department of Mysteries}}
 
{{Main|Battle of the Department of Mysteries}}
   
{{Quote|Very good, Potter. Now tun around, nice and slowly, and give [[Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy|that]] to me|[[Lucius Malfoy]] announces his presence as the Death Eaters ambush the students|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}Harry, Neville, and Hermione are separated from Luna, Ron, and Ginny as they go into the Time Room and seal the door behind them. Two Death Eaters enter the hall; Hermione [[Stunning Spell|Stuns]] one, and Neville, while [[Disarming Charm|Disarming]] the other, disarms Harry as well. Attempting to Stun the Death Eater, he hits a rack full of [[Time Turner]]s. Hermione Stuns the remaining Death Eater. As they try to get into the circular entrance room, two more Death Eaters appear and they veer into a side office when battle recommences.
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{{Quote|Very good, Potter. Now tun around, nice and slowly, and give [[Sybill Trelawney's first prophecy|that]] to me|[[Lucius Malfoy]] announces his presence as the Death Eaters ambush the students|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
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Harry, Neville, and Hermione were separated from Luna, Ron, and Ginny as they went into the Time Room. They [[Locking Spell|sealed the door]] behind them and hid under the desks. Two Death Eaters, [[Rabastan Lestrange]] and [[Crabbe Snr|Crabbe]] entered the hall; Harry [[Stunning Spell|stunned]] Crabbe and Lestrange tried to [[Killing Curse|kill]] Hermione. Harry knocked Rabastan down, and Neville, while [[Disarming Charm|disarming]] the Death Eater, disarmed Harry as well. Neville, attempting to stun the Death Eater, hit a rack full of [[Time-Turner|Time Turners]]. Lestrange first found his wand and tried to stun Harry, but Hermione stunned him. As they tried to get into the circular entrance room, two more Death Eaters appeared and they veered into a side office, where the battle recommenced.<ref name="OOTP35">{{OOTP|B|35}}</ref>
   
[[File:DeathEatersBattle.jpg|thumb|276px|Antonin Dolohov firing curses alongside [[Lucius Malfoy]] at Harry and Sirius for during the battle]]Harry and Neville (dragging a Hermione incapacitated by [[Antonin Dolohov's curse|a curse by Dolohov]]) enter the circular room, where they find Luna, Ginny with a broken ankle, and Ron hit by a curse that makes him act drunkenly. As they search for an exit (Hermione's fiery X's having faded away) several Death Eaters enter, including [[Bellatrix Lestrange]], and start attacking. During the ensuing fight, Harry finds himself in the Brain Room and then back in the room with the Veiled Arch, and a few moments later the [[Order of the Phoenix]] arrives to help in the fight. However, Bellatrix kills Sirius by hitting him with a spell that sends him through the veil.
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[[File:DeathEatersBattle.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Antonin Dolohov firing curses alongside [[Lucius Malfoy]] at Harry and Sirius for during the battle|left]]Harry and Neville (dragging Hermione, who had become incapacitated by [[Antonin Dolohov's curse|a curse by Dolohov]]) entered the circular room, where they found Luna, Ginny with a broken ankle, and Ron hit by a curse that made him act drunkenly. As they searched for an exit (Hermione's fiery Xs having faded away) several Death Eaters entered, including [[Bellatrix Lestrange]], and started attacking them. During the ensuing fight, Harry found himself in the Brain Room and then back in the room with the Veiled Arch, and a few moments later the [[Order of the Phoenix]] arrived to help in the fight. In the ensuing conflict, Bellatrix killed Sirius by hitting him with [[Bellatrix Lestrange's unidentified spell|a spell]] that knocked him through the [[Veil]].<ref name="OOTP35"/>
   
{{Quote|He wrenched upon the door into the circular black hall and saw [[Bellatrix Lestrange|Bellatrix]] disappearing through a door on the other side of the room -- beyond her was the corridor leading back to the lifts. He ran, but she had slammed the door behind her and the walls had begun to rotate again. Once more he was surrounded by streaks of blue light from the whirling candelabra. "Where's the exit?" he shouted desperately, as the wall rumbled to a halt again. "Where's the way out?" The room seemed to have been waiting for him to ask. The door right behind him flew open, and the corridor toward the lifts stretched ahead of him, torch-lit and empty. He ran...|Harry pursuing Bellatrix through the Department of Mysteries|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
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{{Quote|He wrenched upon the door into the circular black hall and saw [[Bellatrix Lestrange|Bellatrix]] disappearing through a door on the other side of the room; beyond her was the corridor leading back to the lifts. He ran, but she had slammed the door behind her and the walls had begun to rotate again. Once more he was surrounded by streaks of blue light from the whirling candelabra. "Where's the exit?" he shouted desperately, as the wall rumbled to a halt again. "Where's the way out?" The room seemed to have been waiting for him to ask. The door right behind him flew open, and the corridor toward the lifts stretched ahead of him, torch-lit and empty. He ran...|Harry pursuing Bellatrix through the Department of Mysteries|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix}}
   
Enraged because Bellatrix killed his godfather, he ran after her through the Brain Room, ducking her curses. Bellatrix runs through the circular chamber into the hallway with the lifts. Harry follows, but the door slams behind her and the room's walls are already spinning In desperation, he asked the room "Where's the way out?" and a door behind Harry pops open, revealing the hallway. Hearing a lift clattering upwards, Harry presses a call button for another lift. He then took a lift to the [[Atrium]] and witnessed the [[Duel in the Ministry Atrium]] between [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] and [[Albus Dumbledore]] themselves.
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Enraged because Bellatrix killed his godfather, he ran after her through the Brain Room, ducking her curses. Bellatrix ran through the circular chamber into the hallway with the lifts. Harry followed, but the door slammed behind her and the room's walls were already spinning. In desperation, he asked the room "Where's the way out?" and a door behind Harry popped open, revealing the hallway. Hearing a lift clattering upwards, Harry pressed a call button for another lift. He then took a lift to the [[Atrium]] and witnessed the [[Duel in the Ministry Atrium]] between [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] and [[Albus Dumbledore]] themselves.<ref name="OOTP36">{{OOTP|B|36}}</ref>
   
 
==Behind the scenes==
 
==Behind the scenes==
*The Entrance Room, as well as the [[Brain Room]], the Love Chamber, the Space Chamber, and the Time Chamber, were omitted from the [[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|film version]].
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*The Entrance Room, as well as the Brain Room, the Love Chamber, the Space Chamber, and the Time Chamber, were omitted from the [[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)|film version]].
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
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*{{OOTP}} {{1st}}
*''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''
 
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*{{OOTP|F}} {{Comment|Cut from final film}}
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==Notes and references==
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{{Reflist}}
   
 
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{{Ministry Level 9}}
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[[pl:Pokój Drzwi]]
 
[[Category:Department of Mysteries]]
 
[[Category:Department of Mysteries]]
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[[Category:Rooms]]

Latest revision as of 04:04, 3 October 2023

"They were standing in a large, circular room. Everything in here was black including the floor and ceiling; identical, unmarked, handleless black doors were set at intervals all around the black walls, interspersed with branches of candles whose flames burned blue; their cool, shimmering light reflected in the shining marble floor made it look as though there was dark water underfoot."
— Description[src]

The Room of Doors[2] was a circular room in the Department of Mysteries. It was located on the ninth level of the Ministry of Magic in Whitehall, London. Many doors led off of this room to other places within the Department.[1]

Description

Department of Mysteries

The corridor leading to the Department of Mysteries; through that door was the circular Entrance Room

This chamber was a large, circular room where everything was black. There were twelve identical, unmarked, black doors without handles set at intervals around in the walls. It had a highly polished black floor that looked almost like standing water. Whenever a door closed, the walls would rotate, making it impossible to determine which door was which.[1]

The room was dimly lit by blue flamed branches of candles that hung on the walls. Whenever one of its doors was shut, the room's walls would rotate, disorienting its occupants for several seconds. This was presumably a security device to keep non-employees of the department from reaching a desired room.[1] The room responded to a verbal request for an exit by opening the correct door.[3]

There were twelve doors leading off the Entrance Room, and some of the chambers that the doors led to included:

History

Early History

Not much was known about this room before 1996, but it was presumably where the Unspeakables (employees of the Department of Mysteries) would enter before entering the room in which they worked.

Search for Sirius

In 1996, Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Ron and Ginny Weasley, Neville Longbottom, and Luna Lovegood arrived in the Department of Mysteries in search of Sirius Black. They entered a door at the end of the corridor Harry had been dreaming about for months, and the six Dumbledore's Army members found themselves in the Department of Mysteries's entrance room, a circular room with twelve identical doors. Harry was unsure of which door to choose, and as soon as the door behind them closed, the walls of the room rotated. When the doors came to a standstill, the group entered through one them, but this turned out to be the Brain Room, a room with a large tank full of floating brains, and so they went back into the Entrance Room.[1]

"She drew with her wand in midair and a fiery X appeared on the door. No sooner had the door clicked shut behind them than there was a great rumbling, and once again the wall began to revolve very fast, but now there was a great red-gold blur in amongst the fait blue, and when all became still again, the fiery cross still burned, showing the door they had already tried"
Hermione Granger's clever idea to use the Flagrate spell[src]
Veil - Death Chamber

The veil in the Death Chamber

Intelligently, Hermione cast the Flagrate spell on the door they came out and labelled it with a fiery X, so that they would know they had already looked through that door when the room span once more. The next room they tried was the Death Chamber, a large stone amphitheatre with an ancient stone archway on a raised dais at the centre. On the archway was a tattered veil fluttering in some unseen wind. Hermione, in particular, seemed frightened, and called Harry back to the circular room.[1]

Prophecy copy

Harry holding the prophecy about him and Voldemort

The next doorway refused to open; Harry used Sirius' knife that would "open any door", but the door remained shut and the knife's blade melted away. Going through the next door they chose, Harry recognised the sparkling, shimmering light from his dreams: the Time Chamber. Passing through this room, they reached the huge chamber containing the shelves loaded with glass orbs that Harry recognised from his dream: the Hall of Prophecy.[1] The students were ambushed by Death Eaters in this room, and ended up fleeing through multiple chambers in the Department.[4]

Battle of the Department of Mysteries

"Very good, Potter. Now tun around, nice and slowly, and give that to me"
Lucius Malfoy announces his presence as the Death Eaters ambush the students[src]

Harry, Neville, and Hermione were separated from Luna, Ron, and Ginny as they went into the Time Room. They sealed the door behind them and hid under the desks. Two Death Eaters, Rabastan Lestrange and Crabbe entered the hall; Harry stunned Crabbe and Lestrange tried to kill Hermione. Harry knocked Rabastan down, and Neville, while disarming the Death Eater, disarmed Harry as well. Neville, attempting to stun the Death Eater, hit a rack full of Time Turners. Lestrange first found his wand and tried to stun Harry, but Hermione stunned him. As they tried to get into the circular entrance room, two more Death Eaters appeared and they veered into a side office, where the battle recommenced.[4]

DeathEatersBattle

Antonin Dolohov firing curses alongside Lucius Malfoy at Harry and Sirius for during the battle

Harry and Neville (dragging Hermione, who had become incapacitated by a curse by Dolohov) entered the circular room, where they found Luna, Ginny with a broken ankle, and Ron hit by a curse that made him act drunkenly. As they searched for an exit (Hermione's fiery Xs having faded away) several Death Eaters entered, including Bellatrix Lestrange, and started attacking them. During the ensuing fight, Harry found himself in the Brain Room and then back in the room with the Veiled Arch, and a few moments later the Order of the Phoenix arrived to help in the fight. In the ensuing conflict, Bellatrix killed Sirius by hitting him with a spell that knocked him through the Veil.[4]

"He wrenched upon the door into the circular black hall and saw Bellatrix disappearing through a door on the other side of the room; beyond her was the corridor leading back to the lifts. He ran, but she had slammed the door behind her and the walls had begun to rotate again. Once more he was surrounded by streaks of blue light from the whirling candelabra. "Where's the exit?" he shouted desperately, as the wall rumbled to a halt again. "Where's the way out?" The room seemed to have been waiting for him to ask. The door right behind him flew open, and the corridor toward the lifts stretched ahead of him, torch-lit and empty. He ran..."
— Harry pursuing Bellatrix through the Department of Mysteries[src]

Enraged because Bellatrix killed his godfather, he ran after her through the Brain Room, ducking her curses. Bellatrix ran through the circular chamber into the hallway with the lifts. Harry followed, but the door slammed behind her and the room's walls were already spinning. In desperation, he asked the room "Where's the way out?" and a door behind Harry popped open, revealing the hallway. Hearing a lift clattering upwards, Harry pressed a call button for another lift. He then took a lift to the Atrium and witnessed the Duel in the Ministry Atrium between Lord Voldemort and Albus Dumbledore themselves.[3]

Behind the scenes

  • The Entrance Room, as well as the Brain Room, the Love Chamber, the Space Chamber, and the Time Chamber, were omitted from the film version.

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 34 (The Department of Mysteries)
  2. See this early script of the fifth film.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 36 (The Only One He Ever Feared)
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 35 (Beyond the Veil)
Department of Mysteries
Level 9, British Ministry of Magic
Room of Doors · Hall of Prophecy · Death Chamber · Brain Room · Time Room · Space Chamber · Love Room