Quantum Harry, the Podcast

Which Tarot cards are aligned with the Deathly Hallows and why? What are the three Hallows with which JK Rowling begins the first book? How are Horcruxes linked to the Chariot, Wheel, and Sun cards? And why is the Battle of Hogwarts on the second of May? Episode 40: The Tarot Hallows Watch the Episode 40 video on YouTube. ~ EPISODE GUIDE ~

In the grid of Tarot Major Arcana cards numbered one to twenty-one, the sixth column, which aligns with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , has the Lovers (#6) at the top of the column, Death (#13) in the middle row, and Judgment (#20) at the bottom. In the book with the most romance, it’s fitting that the Lovers card is prominent here. In Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince , love moves to center stage. Harry and Ginny’s relationship, foreshadowed by the Lovers being a sequential card in the second book, and by the Lovers card being linked to a sequential card in the previous book, finally blossoms in the sixth, but they are not the only Lovers in the sixth book of the series. A person torn between two partners is shown on many versions of the card, and we can see the torn person as more than one character: for instance, Ron’s romantic choices are Lavender or Hermione; Hermione’s are Ron or Cormac McClaggen; Ginny’s are Dean or Harry; and Harry’s are Ginny or Romilda....

How does JK Rowling explicitly link the Tarot to Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ? Which Tarot archetype do Snape and Voldemort share? And what links Dumbledore’s death to Harry killing the basilisk? Episode 39: Love, Death, and Judgment Watch the Episode 39 video on YouTube. Related Essay: The Half-Dead Headmaster ~ EPISODE GUIDE ~

Harry Potter is a bishop in the life-sized chess match in the first book of the series, the fourth obstacle to the Philosopher’s Stone. He is a holy man and intercessor again in the Chamber of Secrets, when he has his spiritual coming-of-age (see Quantum Harry, the Podcast, Episode 13: Deus ex Machina ), a symbolic confirmation or bar mitzvah, embodied by his statement of faith in Dumbledore bringing Fawkes-the-Phoenix to him (a symbolic Holy Spirit). In Order of the Phoenix , Harry is on the front lines of a political and religious war, a church-state conflict. He is still loyal to Dumbledore, the High Priest or Pope figure; both he and Harry are labeled heretics and traitors, fighting in the spirit of the perpetually burning and reborn Fawkes—both Dumbledore’s pet and his namesake, the most notorious traitor in British history: Guy Fawkes. In the grid of Tarot Major Arcana cards numbered one through twenty-one, the column of cards aligning with the fifth book in the Harry...