4 Founders, 4 Elements, and Secret Rooms

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 155506

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kellie and Lady J" 
<pebbles104 at ...> wrote:> 

> We know about the chamber of secrets, and lets assume the room of 
> requirement is a secret room from one of the founders of the 
school.  If this is the case, it seems that the secret rooms are 
important or have some significance in some way.
> 
> The chamber of secrets, while not considered a good thing to the 
rest of the school, was thought quite important to Salazar 
Slytherin.  And the room of requirement, (let's assume that it is 
Ravenclaw because of the tricky way to get into it) provides 
whatever the person attempting to enter it needs.  It  has a purpose.
> 
> I would think that the other secret rooms would have a purpose for 
them. Something out of the ordinary to distinguish them as different 
from all the other quarky things at Hogwarts.  > 
>


Tonks:
OK. So we have the Chamber of Secrets, Water and Slytherin. We could 
say that the Room of Requirement was Ravenclaw, comes out of the 
Air. That leaves Hufflepuff and earth, and Gryffindor and fire.

I have been doing some serious reading about Alchemy. Found some 
obscure notes from Carl Jung's lectures. We know that JKR was seen 
in the company of a book by Jung. (Yes, I know, everything is a clue 
to us even when a cigar is just a cigar.) Jung wrote a lot about 
symbols and about, much to my surprise, Alchemy.

There is something important about the 4 elements in Alchemy. And 
putting the elements together to produce something very powerful. So 
far I have only gotten that the godhead was separated and became the 
4 elements and uniting them brings creation back into the godhead. 
It is all very difficult reading. 

The bottom line is if JKR says the Houses are the 4 elements, then 
we have to look for the elements of Hufflepuff and Gryffindor and 
figure out what she might do with them. We know that the Sorting Hat 
says that the 4 Houses have to work together. 

I have never been a big proponent of the idea of HP being about 
Alchemy, but I am beginning to see some signs of Alchemy at least 
having some small part in the series. And the fact that the fifth 
element is Love is, IMO, a very important reason to look at this. We 
are told that Love is what Harry has, and Love is the secret weapon. 
It is Love that unites the other 4 elements. 

Help..  

Tonks_op