The first seven cards of the Tarot Major Arcana depict age-old archetypes, and with one exception, each aligns with a gender or age archetype (the Wise Old Man, the Maiden, the Father, etc.) plus the ageless and genderless Liminal Being. (See Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episodes 2-9 .) The only card in the first seven that doesn’t align with one of these archetypes has for its only numerically-linked card a Tarot archetype that does align with the remaining “missing” archetype, as if those two are interchangeable. In other words, each book is ruled by a mythic archetype that has an equivalent in the first seven cards of the Tarot Major Arcana in the exact same order . This is unlikely to be a coincidence; instead, it is highly probable that JK Rowling intentionally inserted Tarot imagery and symbolism in the series in a specific, structural way. She seems to have deliberately included imagery from the Tarot Major Arcana, but not randomly, instead utilizing two approaches to acc...
