Cedric Tall & Blond? OT: book illustrations

[vincentjh]

Brin wrote,

> How's this for influence?? The Finnish cover illustration of CoS 
> portrays both Draco and Lucius with shiny black hair combed tightly 
> to the sides with a middle parting, almost Hitler-style. Draco 
shows 
> some longer neck hair beneath the ears, but not Lucius. And Lucius 
> is wearing a muggle coat and tie, of all things!!! (And D and L are 
> both hideously ugly, mind you - although to put it harshly, so is 
> everyone else, since the covers are done in an over-the-top 
cartoony 
> style.)
> 
> The cover of GoF, then, portrays a kind of sandy-blond dreamy-
> looking Cedric, and a PROFOUNDLY weird-looking Krum. And I mean 
> SERIOUSLY. Even his mother wouldn't recognise him. He has plaits 
> with some red and green ribbon in front of his ears. Don't ask!! 
And 
> that's far from the only weird thing in the Finnish cover 
> illustrations, but that's totally OT... I like other things that 
> artist has done, but I think he really should have read the books 
> with a smaller dose of, erm, Confusing Concoction...
> 
> 
> Brin

Just for reference, here're the Finnish covers.
http://www.openflame.com/harrypotter/book_covers_finland.shtml

(I didn't know Krum was supposed to be a vampire!)

http://www.openflame.com/harrypotter/harry_images/covers/book3/cover3_
b_denmark.gif

Book 3 cover from Denmark shows a very beautiful hippogriff. Now I 
wonder how they'll do it in the movie. 

VJH