Title/cover US book 4...

[hert0661]

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From: hert0661
Subject: Re: Title/cover US book 4...
Reply To: [Yahoo! #2847] Title/cover US book 4...
Date: 6/26/00 5:27 am  (ET)

When I refer to book 4 cover I mean the one on Jenna's site. I will be
talking about the USA book covers.
http://www.geocities.com/harrypotterfans/book4uscov.html

I have been looking at that cover and the USA covers for the first
three books. If I remember correctly they are all meant to be by the
same artist. Yet, IMHO, the style of the book 4 cover is different.

In the first three books have covers in which Harry is doing
something. Riding a broomstick on the first, Fawkes giving him a lift
for Cos and on a Hippogriff for PoA. However the cover for book 4 has
him standing still.

The first three covers are also very uncrowded (2 people at most and
plenty of background visible). However book 4 has lots of people in it
and little background.

Also the positioning of the title in the first three has been innovative
as it is placed anywhere and in any direction on the picture. Seemingly
as part of the scenery. For book four it is placed on top of the picture
just under Harry Potter. It is also not in the centre which if the title
is to be placed there seems necessary.

I think that the picture was done by someone else as a promotion for Harry
Potter, it has been around for ages and being used to advertise book 4 in
many places. Then someone has taken this and one of the suggested titles
and combined the two and posted it to the web saying it is the cover.

Whether the title is right is a different. It may be the correct title
but we do not yet know! CoF or GoF then I would have to say I would
prefer CoF.

I am more convinced by the UK book cover as I would be more likely to
trust the source from where it cameand the style is similar to previous
books. As of yet I have heard no satisfactory accounts of where this
cover came from which is why I suspect it to be a fake.

Simon