Four Humours (wasRe: CHAPDISC: HBP5, An Excess of Phlegm

[M.Clifford]

No: HPFGUIDX 144259

 
> potioncat wrote:
> One theroy of health used to be that the body contained four 
> Humours. (Phlegm, Blood, Bile and ????)  All four are supposed to be
> in balance. Certain conditions were thought to be due to an excess 
> of one of the Humours. Does anyone know anything about this? What 
> are the four humours? And what would an excess of phlegm cause?
> 
> I wonder if the name of this chapter has more to do with Tonks than
> with Fleur.

> Juli: 
>   The only relation I see between Fleur and Phlegm is the winter.
Fleur is described in the books as beautiful and cold, very much like
winter. She isn't particularly lovable (aside from her veela-ness),
she isn't very nice (IMO)... She's pretty cold to me.
>    
>   Sirius probably had too much Black Bile. He was melancholic,
depressed, he thought constantly about the 'good old days'... He is
fall, his better days are over, he is slowly dying and going black...
>    
>   Severus, oth, is completely full of Yellow Bile, he's choleric,
dry, and hot (maybe I'm the only one who thinks he's hot). But he
isn't at all like summer. He's probably the less summer-y person ever!

Valky:
I agree with you Juli on Sirius and Snape here, it makes sense. In the
case of the phlegmatic humour I think potioncat is right and it does
have to do with Tonks, although she is not the phlegmatic one her
sadness is caused by Lupin's extremely phlegmatic reaction to the war.

It is Lupin who has turned cold and unemotional in his grief, he
pushes away her love and he is reacting in a strangely unemotional way
to his awful mission and Sirius' death, he also makes the
extraordinarily ufeeling statement about neither liking nor hating
Snape, I think that the real excess of phlegm in HBP must be in Lupins
demeanour. 

Just a thought

Valky