Hall of Prophecy

The Hall of Prophecies is located on the 9th floor of the Deparment of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic. Members of Dumbledore's Army including Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley]], Neville Longbottom]], and Luna Lovegood]] followed Harry here on a quest to save Harry’s godfather, Sirius Black, who Harry believed was in mortal danger in the fifth book of the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

The Hall of Prophecy is described as a huge room that is as high as a church and is filled with row upon row of long, towering shelves, beginning outside the Time Chamber with Row 53, with the row numbers growing larger as Harry and his friends progress to the right. On these shelves sit “small, dusty, glass orbs” (Order of the Phoenix, chp 37). These orbs are in fact prophecies, magical insights into the future. They are each labelled with the name of the person who made the prophecy, the person whom the prophecy concerns, and the year the prophecy was made. A few of these prophecies glow a dim, “weird”, liquid white from within and are warm to the touch, while others remain “dull and dark as blown light bulbs” (Order of the Phoenix, chp 37). These prophecies and flickering blue candles are the only source of light within the cold, quiet room.

The Prophecy
The mysterious prophecy that Ron found, as is later revealed, was made by Sybill Patricia Trelawney to Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore in reference to the Dark Lord Voldemort and could be about either Harry Potter or Neville Longbottom. The prophecy states that:

''The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches…. Born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies… and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not… and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives… The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies….''