[HPforGrownups] Cover art questions

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 17384

Amy asked about the UK cover art:

<<(3) Is the person on the back of PS supposed to be any actual character,
and if so, for heaven's sake who?>>

We had quite a debate about this issue once, because the original artwork
featured an unidentifiable magical man with short brown hair, carrying a
book with a pentacle on it.  My view was that it was meant to be Nicolas
Flamel, but we were, to be honest, puzzled by it.

I wrote to Bloomsbury and they wrote back, as follows:

"Now have the answer for you: your third surmise was correct, ie it was a
generic wizarding character who was later changed to the identifiable
Dumbledore."

The picture was altered to one of Dumbledore around the tenth UK printing,
IIRC.  I'm not sure which version of PS you have, but if it's an early
edition, you may have the generic figure.

Neil
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