Elements of Houses

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 144876

Bart:
"I don't know exactly what JKR said on this, and there might be some 
argument, but Ravenclaw is DEFINITELY air (and I THINK JKR said that 
Gryffindor was fire). A case could be made for Slytherin being earth 
(with their obsession for the material), and Hufflepuff being water 
(success through dogged determination)."

Hufflepuff's totem animal is a BADGER, a burrowing animal; Slytherin's is a
snake, and their common room is under a lake, and in the Hat's Song he is
associated with a SWAMP. Don't those indicate that Hufflepuff is Earth and
Slytherin is Water?  Also, Slytherin is consistantly opposed to Griffyndor--are
not Fire and Water the most strongly opposed elements?

Bruce



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