Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets being JK Rowling’s retelling of the Grimm version of “Little Red Riding Hood” is possibly one of the cleverest things she has done in the series. (See Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 12: Grow Up Now , Episode 13: Deus ex Machina , and Episode 14: The Devil’s Game .) However, Rowling doesn’t just use myth and folklore to shape her seven-book series. When the Tarot Major Arcana cards numbered one through twenty-one are placed in a grid of three rows and seven columns, each column contains cards whose symbolism allows us to see that each column aligns with each book in the Harry Potter series, starting with the top card in each column aligning neatly with the archetype ruling each book. (See Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 2: This Old Man .) Each book also aligns with a set of three “sequential cards” that take our hero through a Tarot journey from card #1 to card #21, a Tarot story , going back to the origins of the Tarot, which wer
