OoP Book covers

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 54187

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Calliope" <julia at t...> wrote:
> "sam2sar" wrote:
 
> I wonder if the place with all the doors could be St. Mungo's?  Some 
people have speculated that Fudge may try to have Harry sent there, 
claiming Harry is insane.  Maybe Harry is escaping from St. Mungo's?>

This is what I'm leaning towards as well, but I was thinking something 
a bit different than Harry being sent there by Fudge (I wouldn't put 
that past Fudge, though).

We know that Neville's parents are in St. Mungo's now and that when 
Neville goes to visit them, they don't recognize him.  What if there's 
more to it than that?  If many of us believe that Fudge would have 
Harry deemed insane, maybe he (or a previous Minister of Magic) sent 
the Longbottoms away as well.  Maybe they know something that someone 
with a lot of power in the WW doesn't want to be known.  We've seen 
characters in the Potterverse under all sorts of spells; perhaps the 
Longbottoms are not really insane but under the Imperius.

We also know, from the few lines of OoP that have been released, 
Dumbledore will share something important with Harry; something that 
(I'm guessing) Harry needs and deserves to know.  Perhaps the 
Longbottoms were more connected to Harry's parents than we thought, 
and Harry takes it upon himself (as we know he likes to do) to get 
them out of St. Mungo's.

Or maybe the recent political events here in the US are just making me 
think more about conspiracies...

--jenny from ravenclaw, who thinks Harry on the cover of OoP looks 
*nothing* like Daniel Radcliffe and who also has always like Mary 
GrandPre's work with HP ***************************