Snape as the dark young man/Extra Material On Trelawney's Card Reading

[Ceridwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 141893

Ceridwen, snipping AyanEva's excellent and well-researched post (I 
enjoyed it, and it got me thinking)

A lot of people use the regular deck of playing cards for fortune 
telling.  And, one method of doing so on the fly is to just turn 
cards over and read them in your hand, not laying them out into a 
spread on a table.  As Divination teacher, Trelawney would know 
several different ways to read cards, and how to read several 
different types of decks.

There is a how-to for regular playing cards at 
http://www3.sympatico.ca/terrir/divination_index.html  And, there is 
a four-card reading, though it only uses 32 cards, sevens and above, 
which doesn't help for Trelawney's reading.  However, since I was 
curious, I snagged the meanings for the four cards we hear her 
discussing:

2 Spades:  Torn between two choices, stalemate 
7 Spades:  Stealth in dealings.Betrayal by someone you trust. Minor 
theft.   (Romany: Seven of Spades - your tears )
10 Spades:  Weakened health, chronic illness (real and imagined)
Knave Spades:  Immature, cold, bossy, delinquent or gang leader

Spades are for:
"Wisdom of old age, obstacles in life, warnings Winter Air and Earth 
Black hair and eyes, introverted, cold, unemotional approach to life 
Swords"
Wisdom sounds like Dumbledore, but the physical description sounds 
like Snape.  Harry would be hearts, as he has dark hair and blue, 
green or hazel eyes.

Since the Romany four-card reading doesn't involve the 2, this is all 
I could get from it:
Jack Spades: Serious young man, in law or medicine, can also mean 
deception 
10 Spades:  Sorrow, loss of freedom, sad journey
7 Spades:  Suspense, decisions or arrangements to be made

Disclaimer:  I don't read cards, not Tarot, not playing cards.  This 
is just on a cursory search of the internet, not from any personal 
knowledge or experties.

Ceridwen.