[HPforGrownups] Re: 4 Founders, 4 Elements, and Secret Rooms

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 155532

Tonks said:
"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. 
  <snipped>
  Tonks_op
  Now Phil:
  I think the secret room of Hufflepuff  was revealed in the first book was entered through a trap door and was guarded by fluffy.
  For Gryffindor, the only other room in the castle that would be difficult to get into and is entered through a trap door on the ceiling is the Divination classroom.
    Phil


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