The house points hour-glasses

[earendil_fr]

No: HPFGUIDX 111001

> Nettie wrote:
>  The points awarded to Griffindor and Ravenclaw are represented by 
> rubies and sapphires. ( OOTP, UK hardback p. 751)My guess is that 
he 
> 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?

Earendil:

Just wanted to point out that emeralds for Slytherin hourglass isn't 
speculation, it's correct and mentioned once in OotP.

I'm at work at the moment so I can't give any page number, but I'm 
quite certain of it since I came across it a couple of days ago 
during a reread. It's mentioned when HP discovers that Draco (as a 
member of the Inquisitorial Squad) was given the right to take House 
points from fellow students: he sees stones going up the Gryffindor 
hourglass while the Slytherin hourglass gets fuller and fuller of 
emeralds.

As for the Hufflepuff stones, my first thought would be topaz, like 
some others mentioned.

Earendil.