And another Hanged Man! Re: HBP - spoilers - Is it on the cards?

[Barry Arrowsmith]

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> Hanged Man here, Hanged Man there . . . And what is the name of the 
> village pub in Little Hangleton?  Ahem?
> 
> The plot thickens.  Fifty points to your House if you can tie the pub 
> reference in with Snape.
> 

This is starting to get intriguing.

I had a thunk - it looks as if the relics from the Founders 'match' the suits
of the minor arcana. Well, according to some (not all - there're different
interpretation systems out there) the areas of influence that each suit 
supposedly refers to roughly match the supposed characcter attributes of
the four relevant Houses. Difficult to be certain, there's a fair amount of 
vagueness, and as stated different folks emphasise the influences differently. 

Coincidence? Perhaps. At the moment I'd lay odds 6:4 that it's not - that's
a 60% chance that it's not coincidental that there's some Tarot stuff in there
and that it's intentional. But would you put your shirt on a 60% chance?
I wouldn't. Need to find more connections/references before the theory can 
be considered to have heft. 

It'd be a damn sight easier chasing it down if there weren't so much other
stuff flooding into our frontal lobes and engaging our attention. 
Am I complaining?
Er .... no. It's a relief having fresh canon to pore over. 
But just now I need two brains.

Kneasy