Cover subjects

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Jennifer Piersol" <jenP_97 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 
> > I really like this illustrator, but Buckbeak's nether half looks 
> like 
> > a horse's, not a lion's.  The UK edition gives him a horse's tail 
> > too, but otherwise he looks half-lion as he should.
> > 
> 
> {snip}
> 
> > Amy Z
> 
> Amy...
> 
> Aren't you a member of L.O.O.N.?  Buckbeak is a "hippogriff", which 
> means half HORSE, half EAGLE... a Gryphon is the one that's half 
> lion.  The books have it right: Buckbeak's front half is eagle, his 
> back half is horse.

Oops.  I thought the books described him as half lion.  Must be 
losing my mind as well as my membership in LOON.  I just looked at 
the covers and he does have hooves . . . call it a brain cramp.  Or a 
sign that I should stop futzing around here and get back to my to-do 
pile.

Amy Z