How it all started

After seeing my friend's Homestuck tarot card deck in Math class, I decided I wanted my own Harry Potter version. I've always been interested in tarot like things (seeing into the past, present, future  palm readings, tea leaves, crystal balls, Divination- Professor Trelawney is one of my favorite Hogwarts teachers - oracles, myths, etc.).
When I first entered 'Harry Potter tarot cards' into Google, I didn't have much success. I couldn't find a deck that I could purchase anywhere. But then I saw a link to a gallery on deviantart.com which led me to Ellygator. She had created and posted her own tarot card deck on the site detailing each picture with the meanings behind each card and why she chose the Harry Potter symbol, person, place, or thing to represent it. The printed out version of her deck was between $80-100 whether you wanted the cards just printed or actually cut out (which is pretty awesome). Being who I am and how much money I have in my bank account (which isn't very much since I'm in high school), I didn't think I could purchase it. So I decided to make my own deck. I sent Ellygator a message before doing so, asking if it was ok if I used some of the interpretations that she had for some of the cards and asked her if it was ok with her that I was doing this, since I was taking this idea of a creating a Harry Potter tarot deck from her. She was very nice and even asked me to send her pictures of my deck.

And so I began researching tarot cards and their meanings. I recorded the places, people, things, etc. that Ellygator had chosen for her deck as well as others that I found later.

And these three pages were the result (as well as dry eyes and cramped fingers)