More Goblet of Fire Movie

I just finally got a clear conception of this on the way home today. Regarding the psychological horizontal level of the Alchemical symbolism in the books and Ron as the "biological soul" and Hermione as the "intellectual soul," with Harry in the middle as the golden soul uniting them, my friend Dom put me on this track with a side comment on the movie concerning Hermione's statement that Krum is "more of a physical being," and how fitting it is that she is paired with him ... and I thought, "of course! How could I have missed that?!" (smacking my head). And then I notice something in the symbolism in the book, that the movie brings it out especially well. The symbolism of the horizontal level extends to the different characteristics of Hogwarts, Durmstrang and Beauxbatons. I am sure that there is something in the names (like the fact that beaux is "beatutiful" etc) but I do not know what it is. What I want to discuss is the way each school is portrayed. Durmstrang is physical, the biological nature. I thought they pulled this off wonderfully in the movie with the use of the harsh regimented rhythm of the beating of the staffs. The biological is about the rhythm of the natural life in the world (fertility cycles, planting and harvest cycles etc). Beauxbatons is about an airy beauty, not meaning airy in the sense of necessarily air-headed ... although in HBP we do see in the person of Fleur that this charge is often made against beauty. I mean "airy" in the sense that mercury/thought - a.k.a. what is represented by Hermione as the intellectual soul - is un-tethered and free to fly. And, as Dom noted, the symbolism carries through to the pairings. Hermione, who is destined to be with Ron as the intellectual soul is with the biological soul in the human person, winds up for this book being paired with another very "biological" soul, Victor Krum. And who does Ron take a fancy to but Fleur Delacour (that scene in the movie where he has asked her out is hilarious). And who is in the middle? Why Hogwarts of course, wearing neither the regimented uniforms of Durmstrang nor the beautiful uniforms of Beauxbatons, but the shirt-tails that hang out and the sloppy ties without the top buttons buttoned, that match all to well the always uncombed hair of the true golden soul, Harry. The winning quality, the status of most important, being ascribed to Hogwarts as the golden soul of unity can be seen in that only the two champions from that school make it to the cup. I like too how Rowling worked in a little confusion on Harry's part in the form of a crush on Cho, who is from Ravenclaw (wind). Speculation Now here is some pure speculation, and it is not in very polished form either, but I thought I would throw it out there - maybe Pauli can pick it up and run with it the way I ran with his side comment that potions is a wandless magic. Is there a significance to the fact that it is Huffle puff and Gryffindor who represent Hogwarts? Earth and Fire? There is a unique significance in Genesis to the fact that "Adam" comes from the "Adamah" ... Humanity comes from the ground, and combined with this there is some mysterious significance to the fact that Cain and Noah are both "tillers of the ground." Fire on the other hand is usually connected with the divinity of Yahweh, such as when Yahweh speaks to Moses from within the burning bush or when Yahweh leads Israel as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. For Rowling (who has herself made special note of the 4 elements symbolism), I cannot imagine that there is not some significance to the fact that earth and fire champion Hogwarts, but I do not yet know what that is. Disclaimer: If any of this is already in Granger's work and I have lifted it from there without realizing it I apologize ... I did not thoroughly read the portions of his book that were focused specifically on the individual books. There were chapters at the end devoted to each book, but most of what I read came from the main chapters where he did use specific examples but did not go through each book one at a time yet.