A better site for book covers!!/Harry in St Mungos

[karywick]

No: HPFGUIDX 54100

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jastrangfeld" 
<mrsbonsai at c...> 
> wrote:
> > Sorry to keep posting :)  But I also see now in that bigger 
picture,
> > those doors all look to me as though they either have mirrors or 
> glass
> > on them, explaining the ghostly look of the floating candles.  And
> > from where Harry's wand is standing, and the directions of the 
> flames,
> > I'd have to say the room looks like it is spinning to me.  It 
would
> > also account for "floating" candle looks, as it's reflected and 
> moving
> > fast, it would leave streaks.  
> 
> You know - since Harry's right-handed, this is likely a mirror-
image 
> (which would explain all the candles, floating on doors, 
particularly 
> if there's something else reflective in that room). And I think 
that 
> spinning breeze might have been caused by Harry doing such 
magic/the 
> room spins. The streaks are the artist's way to express movement, 
> speed would make Harry's hand and wand unclear...
> 
> Still, maybe it's not the *room* spinning, maybe it's the candles 
> that move?
> 
I think:  I read an article  in the Detriot FreePree/ News a few 
weeks ago about Mary GrandPre ,from Minnesota, who does the American 
version cover art.  She reads an early release of the book before she 
does the art but she let nothing on about the book in the article 
itself (which as people have noticed because they noticed she 
sometimes give quite a bit away. )By the way, She said she looks at 
herself in a mirror as she draws Harry, so the way he looks is based 
on her.  Here's a pic sorry it won't turn blue to link - I also can't 
spell check- I don't know why.  
http://www.marygrandpre.org/marybio.html 
 
So as to that's why the American cover is a blueish gray  . . .It's 
that magical room again.  Maybe the room is spinning because the 
magical room Harry is in that is spinning is Dumbledore's pensieve.  
Someone (I can't remember who, it was so long ago) feared that 
Dumbledore would die before he could tell Harry about his past.  
Maybe Harry has to go back in to that strangly magicical pensieve to 
learn access the past thoughts of Dumbledore about Lily.   I predict 
that that may be where he stored them because she may have been such 
an enigma to him.  (Maybe she was a Slytherin or Heir to it or he 
didn't understand why James loved her)  The spinning on the cover 
could hint at the spinning of his thoughts or the spinning of Harry's 
thought's in the penseive.  Any other takers on this one?

I agree with all those that say that the doors represent choices.  I 
think that regardless of what they are (and again we'll know for sure 
in 90 days and 3 hours now except for me, boohoo!, 90 days and 15 
hours) Harry will have a lot of choice to make- protecting or not 
people he doesn't like maybe Dursley's or Snape, Evil or Good 
Defintely Good (we hope), maybe save a friend or kill Voledmort, but 
I think there will be many many choices in this book and as 
Dumbledore said in CoS "It is our choices who show us who we are, far 
more than our abilities".  And we all know that the easy choices 
aren't always the best choices.