1 - Presumably it is the original seal of Hogwarts, hence it has the symbols of all four founders?
2- My guess is that the flash of gold is Fawkes since Fawkes is described earlier as red-gold and I think at one point as having “golden flame” and since Fawkes really likes people who try to be heros.
Also, do we know offhand:
1) What the shield is? I want to say Shield of Hufflepuff, but googling that didn’t produce anything useful. Is it something I should know about?
2) What the flash of gold is? I have a vague feeling of something being introduced earlier in the story that’d be relevant, but I can’t remember.
1 - Presumably it is the original seal of Hogwarts, hence it has the symbols of all four founders?
2- My guess is that the flash of gold is Fawkes since Fawkes is described earlier as red-gold and I think at one point as having “golden flame” and since Fawkes really likes people who try to be heros.
Turns out, that was a good call.