The Ancient Riddle - what does JKR know?

[Tonks]

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Finishing my Alchemy 101 studies I have discovered this interesting 
point.  Apparently the stone can NOT be destroyed.  I wonder if JKR 
knows this.  DD must have figured it out somewhere between book 1 
and book 2.  But does Rowling know??

According to Carl Jung, the stone, because it is the union of all 
the opposites, can not be taken apart once it is created.  I don't 
know if this has any implications for book 7.  If JKR doesn't know, 
then it will not.  But is seems to me that she does have some 
knowledge of Alchemy. My evidence for this is as follows:

She says that the 4 houses represent the 4 elements.  The 4 elements 
are important in Alchemy. (Yes, I know that they are important in 
witchcraft too.)

The colors of red and gold are important in Alchemy. They are the 
colors between the darkness and the dawn. They are the colors that 
represent the process of resurrection. In HP they are the colors of 
Gryffindor and of Fawkes. 

Alchemy has 4 colors:  Black, red, gold/yellow and white.  In that 
order. Perhaps we have the Blacks as evil and Albus and Lily as the 
good for a reason.  Sirius is a special case as a Black that becomes 
good as in Alchemy through the process of starting with that which 
is vile or from the earth (black) and proceeding to the white in 
creating the stone.

The 2 serpents spiraling in opposite directions are also from 
Alchemy.  They represent the east (right hand path/sun/fire) and the 
west (left hand path/moon/water) and when they come together we have 
the union of the opposites necessary to create the stone. (In HP 
this is the union of Gryffindor and Slytherin.) Carl Jung sees them 
as parts of the human mind. This is why I think that LV is the dark 
side of Harry that Harry must take into himself in order to vanquish 
LV.  I also think that this is why Harry and Tom look so much alike 
at the same age.  LV is a part of Harry.  Just as the evil in the 
world is a part of each of us and in order to *vanquish* it we each 
have to start within ourselves.  I suspect that this is part of the 
message of the HP series. 

The lightening bolt is also from Alchemy. In fact two lighting bolts 
in different directions are on the throne of the Dalai Lama. 
According to Carl Jung the bolt that goes from left to right is the 
good. The one that goes from right to left is the evil.  They are 
united in a symbol in Tibetan Buddhism that was later taken by 
Hitler to represent his cause. So when you see the image that I am 
describing it looks somewhat like the swastika.  Remember on JKR's 
website the lightening bold was like an L with another line coming 
straight down from the bottom of the L. I remember people commenting 
on it; that is wasn't the angle that they thought it was and it 
wasn't the way it was shown in the pictures.  But the image on JKR's 
site would be more in keeping with the image from Buddhism. 

One final comment about Alchemy. It is called the highest of 
sciences.  It is called "the science of God".  It has nothing to do 
with chemistry as the Muggles have been told.  It is about the human 
being finding God (by whatever name you know) within himself.  For a 
Christian this means finding the inner Christ, being transformed and 
living the life of Christ in the world.  The person who has done 
this becomes the stone.  So maybe John Granger will be right.  Maybe 
Harry will become the stone. And according to the ancient alchemist, 
the stone can not be destroyed. 

Tonks_op