The house points hour-glasses

[Josh Warren]

No: HPFGUIDX 110999

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Tammy Rizzo <ms-tamany at r...> 
wrote:
> Annette:
> > The points awarded to Griffindor and Ravenclaw are represented by 
> > rubies and sapphires. ( OOTP, UK hardback p. 751)My guess is that 
> > the Slytherin hourglass contains emeralds but what precious 
> > stones do Hufflepuffs collect? They should be yellow or black, in 
> > keeping with the house colours, any guesses?
> Tammy:
> Well, my father was a jeweler for a while, so I'm somewhat familiar 
> with precious and semiprecious gemstone colors.  Topaz is a 
> yellowish golden-brown, so that might work for Hufflepuff.  Citron 
> is a yellowish green, and that might be workable, in contrast with 
> the rubies and sapphires and conjectured emeralds, but I don't 
> think it would quite fit.  Jet is jet black, basically faceted 
> coal, but could be used.  I know there is a truly yellow gemstone, 
> but the name escapes me right now 
> -- Dad hasn't dabbled in jewelry for about twenty years now. 

Poking around, the golden or black variation of a sapphire would 
work, lemon quartz, the honey-yellow variation of dendritic opalite, 
and amber.

However, I'd probably go with topaz, as it's yellow color is the 
classical color, and it's another birthstone... same as the other 3.

Josh