4 Founders, 4 Elements, and Secret Rooms

[Randy]

No: HPFGUIDX 155541

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:
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> 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
>


I remember reading some interesting essays by John Granger about 
Harry Potter and Alchemy.  I suggest you google "John Granger Harry 
Potter and Alchemy"

Randy