Leaky Cauldron essay: A Tarot Reading of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”

Congrats Chloe! One of the Eight Readers and a regular commenter here at ol' Antsaint, Chloe has recently published an essay on the Harry Potter fan site Leaky Cauldon. She discusses Harry Potter book 7, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, as well as the other Potter books, along with Tarot and its significances in the novels' symbolism, themes and plot:

Link: The Leaky Cauldron - A Tarot Reading of “Deathly Hallows”

A Tarot Reading of “Deathly Hallows” By Chloe Squibbulus Unfogging “Deathly Hallows” seems a little like J.K. Rowling extracting her strand of thought and putting it in the fan Pensieve. Like Harry with Voldemort’s memories, we are left to swirl it and puzzle out its meaning – its relevance – to the conclusion. And this isn’t just a conclusion; it’s the finale of our Harry Potter universe (a tragedy in and of itself). Aspects of Rowling’s revelation of the title lead in very different but complimentary directions: one highlights the method of extraction – the Hangman game; the other concerns the title itself.

Comments

[chloe]

The eight of us must be traveling a lot to populate your cluster map so well.

Thanks for posting this!

[Anthony StClair]

I always wondered how you lot managed to pull it off. I figured you'd bought up the lot of the old Concorde planes, and fueled them with concentrated Red Bull.