Tarot Sequence WAS: Snape as the dark young man

[Sydney]

No: HPFGUIDX 141946

Wow, AyanEva, thanks for all that great stuff!  
> 

AyanEva responded to me:
 
> Wait, where was The Hanged Man??? Oh, now you're tempting me into
> doing just that; going through all 6 books with a tarot deck.  

The village pub at the start of GoF is called "The Hanged Man".  Then
there's the Levicorpus spell-- that suspends the victim FROM ONE
ANKLE-- just like the Hanged Man card.  So that's two bits of
unmistakable Tarot imagery in HBP.  I don't know if she's going
through the whole deck in order, but there's some evidence that she
is-- this last book was filled imagery that could relate to Temperance
(all the cups and drinking, Harry's self-control, the emphaisis on
balancing forces), the Devil (Riddle and Snape, and perhaps the love
potions that sieze control of the body), and of course the Tower.

If Rowling IS following the Tarot squence, Book 7 should be a jolly
cheerful read:  after the Tower comes The Star: a reaffirmation of
hope and core values. Sirius? He's a star. Or Lily. The Moon:
Dreamlike confusion; inspiration, but also an inability to tell fact
from fiction. Luna! The Sun: Benevolence of the universe. Um, Hagrid?
Judgement: going back over the past and making peace with it.
Repentance and absolution. Snape. The World: Completion, harmonization
of all divisions.  Yay!

I can't seem to get much traction on lining up the cards with the
first four books though.

--Sydney