Harry Potter and the Seven Deadlies

[jekatiska]

No: HPFGUIDX 147718

> Renee:
> 
> I'm afraid you're (con)fusing two Tarot cards here: the Fool and 
the
> Hanged Man. The Fool is the first card of the deck, bearing the 
number
> zero, and stands for innocence, naivity, new beginnings and 
unexpected
> happenings. Reversed, it stands for ill-advised risks, impulsive
> actions and rash decisions. If this is anyone's card, it's Harry's,
> not Snape's.
> 
> The Hanged Man is card #12. It stands for change (things turned on
> their head), rebirth, sacrifice, devotion to a cause, but reversed,
> for loss, lack of commitment, selfish preoccupations and inability 
to
> move forward. If this is Snape's card, the interesting question 
would
> be whether it came out upright or reversed.

Jekatiska:

Lack of commitment to Dumbledore and the Order? Selfish 
preoccupations - I think we've seen that, too. Inability to move 
forward from his hatred of James and Sirius? Yeah, I'll buy that.

As for gluttony, Slughorn seems like a good guess, but how about the 
theme involving other characters than teachers? Dudley? I seem to 
recall JKR saying in an interview we would eventually get to know 
what Dudley saw when the Dementor attacked, which somehow suggests 
to me that we'll see a bit more of Dudley in the next book than in 
HBP. 

Incidentally, has anyone else thought of the 'huge blond Death 
Eater' as an Imperiused Dudley? I know it's a weird long shot but 
it's the first thing that came to my mind when I read that scene. (I 
haven't been following the discussion for the past 6 months or so, 
so forgive me if this is an old topic.)

Jekatiska