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He's AMAZING.
Truly so.
I hear so many new things with each listening. And the sheer volume of recognizable voices is mind boggling.
Much as I love Stephen Fry...and I really do...have you heard his reading? It's so much less a dramatization, than a lovely uncle reading the story out loud. Not the same experience at ALL.
I did notice in DH that Jim Dale reused a voice from a previous book. A minor character...but with something like 143 individual representations in total, you'd expect even more difficulty in discerning from one to the other.
In this reading, he pronounced Scrimgour as Scrimjer vs. the ScrimJAW of the last book. Makes me wonder if JK gives him phonetic direction at all.
Wait! Is there a Harry Potter Tarot yet?
Because my friends and I had an awesome idea for one tonight.
Is there a Harry Potter Tarot yet?
A quick google indicates yes, but I haven't gone through the links.
A quick google indicates yes, but I haven't gone through the links.
hmm...well...I have no memory about what our awesome idea actually was so. Damned bourbon.
hmm...well...I have no memory about what our awesome idea actually was so. Damned bourbon.
Let's see, the houses of Hogwarts as the suits. ETA: Slytherin - Swords, Gryffindor - Cups, Hufflepuff - Coins, Ravenclaw - Wands. (I'm not sure about Cups and Wands.)
Marjor Arcana:
The Fool - Harry?
The Magician - Dumbledore, Harry
The High Priestess - Luna Lovegood? Trelawney?
The Empress - Lily, Mrs. Weasley
The Emperor - James
The Hierophant - Dumbledore
The Lovers - Ron & Hermione/ Ginny and Harry
The Chariot - Thestrals/ Flying car
Strength - Buckbeak and Sirius/ Hagrid
The Hermit - Snape
Wheel of Fortune - Sirius?
Justice - Tonks
The Hanged Man - Sirius?
Death - Dementors
Temperance - Hermoine?
The Devil - Voldemort
The Tower - Azkaban
The Star -
The Moon - Lupin
The Sun -
Judgment -
The World -
Professor McGonnigle for the High Priestess?
I just did an edit and put maybe Luna or Trelawney there. i thought of McGonnigal (sp), but I think of HP as being about intuition and the unconscious, and McGonnigal doesn't do it for me.
Well, clearly McGonnigal is the Queen of Gryffindor - which would be which suit?
I see Ravenclaw as Swords. . . but the rest aren't so clear.
I was an editing monkey, sumi, this is what I put:
Slytherin - Swords, Gryffindor - Cups, Hufflepuff - Coins, Ravenclaw - Wands. (I'm not sure about Cups and Wands.)
I agree, Ravenclaw are the Intellectual house and swords are about mental energy. But swords also seem to be the most ambigious of the suits to me, there seems to be a lot more negative energy in them.
