Missing Horcrux = Ravenclaw's

[jjjjjuliep]

No: HPFGUIDX 137029

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "M.Clifford" <Aisbelmon at h...> 
wrote:


> This is very interesting. And I think that there is something 
> that we should note bout Voldemorts Horcruxes as opposed to the 
> Four Houses at Hogwarts as they were set up by JKR.
> 
> The Four Houses - 
> Slytherin - Water - Cups
> Gryffindor - Fire - Wands
> Hufflepuff - Pentacles - Earth
> Ravenclaw - Air - Sword
> 
> The Founders Objects as Jujube suggests -
> Slytherin Pendant - Pentacle - Earth
> Gryffindor Sword - Sword - Air
> Hufflepuff Chalice - Cup - Water
> Ravenclaw Wand  - Wand - Fire
> 
> Voldemorts Horcruxes -
> Slytherin Pendant - Pentacle - Earth
> Gryffindor ?...? - Sword/Wand - Air/Fire
> Hufflepuff Chalice - Cup - Water
> Ravenclaw ?...? - Sword/Wand - Air/Fire
> 
> We do seem to have a wand belonging in The Ravenclaw position.

Yep.  At first I was, I dunno, alarmed? because the articles didn't 
line up with the houses, but then I remembered that phoenixes don't 
die every month either ;-); JKR takes the ideas and makes them her 
own so they have more emotional or dramatic resonance.

[reluctant snip of very interestng Egyptian mythology]

> The Egyptian Mythology goes on and on with possibilities, 
> thousands of them. So this conjecture may not lead anywhere at 
> all. I just thought I'd mention it though.

Thank you for doing so--JKR draws quite heavily on Egyptian mythology 
in the series (along with alchemy, which is why I find it so 
fascinating that she's used a phoenix as a phoenix on a sign in 
ancient Egypt denoted an alchemist, and the book is very very heavy 
on alchemical symbols), so this may indeed be undergirding her 
structure for the Horcruxes.  

Or I'm completely wrong (but learning a lot in the process!). ;-)

jujube