HBP - spoilers - Is it on the cards?

[fhmaneely]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> 
wrote:
> Fran:
> 
> > Forgot to ask you what a regular Hanged Man represents since 
there 
> is 
> > a reference to one in the book as well. In Fred and Georges joke 
> > shop......
> 
> 
> Someone's probably said this already--sorry, I can't read *all* of 
> these at work--but as another poster described, the hanged man 
hangs 
> by one foot.
> 
> Very like the curse that Snape invented, that hangs you by one 
ankle, 
> eh? The one that was written in his old spell book. That James used 
on 
> him in his memory. That Harry tried to use on him in HBP. That 
Snape 
> identifies as his own work, specifically, for good measure.
> 
> Yep yep yep.
> 
> ~Amanda

I looked up the hanged man on the web and found this:

A man hanging by one foot from a Tau cross - sometimes from a bar or 
tree. His free leg is always bent to form a "4," his face is always 
peaceful, never suffering.

I liked the four! Four Houses, four remaining horcrockys.....
Fran