[HPforGrownups] SPOILER: "Order of the Phoenix" book cover?

[Simon]

No: HPFGUIDX 20328

Milz: <<<I'm not describing anything within this message, but it may still be
spoilerish. To avoid rocks, hairnets and the ire of a new mother, I recommend
that any replies with descriptions should be labeled as a "SPOILER">>>

<<<Someone directed me to this web site
(http://www.landofharrypotter.homestead.com/BookCovers.html). Scroll to the
bottom and it has the UK OoP book cover. Not sure if this is a 'red herring'
or not. But it looks legit on the surface.>>>


It is the same picture as is on the following page:
http://www.hpgalleries.com/covercontest4.htm. This is a competition on the HP
Galleries to design a cover for the new books. So I would guess from that that
we can conclude it to be a fake.

Also the UK books follow a similar colour pattern. In the picture (easier to
see on the larger version at the HP Galleries) we can also see the spine to
the book. The UK book spines are split into 4 sections. The top is a little
picture, the second is a coloured background with Harry Potter on it, the
third a different colour with the book title and author on it and the bottom
being a third colour with Bloomsbury on it. The important one out of these is
the second one. The background colour to this section is then the same as the
colour of the top part of the front of the book. This is not the case in the
cover linked too above.

Looking at the spine it seems to be the spine of a copy of PoA (purple, red
and black). For information CoS is blue, green and red. PS is red, blue and
yellow. GoF is orange, dark blue and turquoise. So from that I reckon it is a
fake.

Another reason to suspect it to be a fake is that it says 'Double Smarties
Award Winning Author' at the bottom. This is exactly what is written on the
bottom of the PoA hardback. The updated PS hardback
(http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/0747532699.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg), however,
proclaims that Jo Rowling to have won three of these awards. If this were the
new book then you would expect the publishers to be able to get this detail
right. On GoF they did not put this on and I would not be surprised if it were
also left of future books.

I see that Heidi has also posted another reason to suspect it to be a fake. So
my conclusion would be that it is not going to be the cover for OotP.



Simon
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"Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it
keeps its brain."
Arthur Weasley - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Jo Rowling
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