[HPforGrownups] re: Color Symbol

[Kronos]

No: HPFGUIDX 44359

"Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)" wrote:
> (The
> Four Elements go with modern science if you say they are the states
> of matter: Earth the solid state, Water the liquid state, Air the
> gaseous state, and Fire the energy state.)

I agree with you on the wiccan color correspondances.  But for the
record: energy is not matter, nor is it a state of matter (which is why
we have both a Law of the Conservation of Matter as well as a Law of the
Conservation of Energy.  Granted, one can be converted to the other,
however).

The four forms of matter are solid, liquid, gaseous, and plasma (which
works well enough for red).

> Fire - Gryffindor - passion and courage
> Earth - Hufflepuff - work and patience
> Air - Ravenclaw - thought and communication
> Water - Slytherin - deviousness (water can sneak out of even the
> smallest crack in a vessel).
> As shown, the Four Elements do pretty much match up with the Four
> Houses, marred mainly by the plot's requirement that one House
> (Slytherin) be evil and the other good, when all four Elements have
> both good and evil aspects. (Devious is called flexible when it's
> good.)

I'd hesitate -- mightily -- to call Ambition "deviousness" or evil
(ambition being the cardinal attribute of Slytherin).  Indeed, one can
easily be ambitious without being evil.

-Kronos