Moving Candles

[brinforest]

No: HPFGUIDX 54214

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Linda" <stargaz77 at a...> wrote:

> <snip> But one theory no one has brought up, and it 
> seems plausable to me, is the the candles themselves could be 
moving 
> in a circular room around Harry.  They look like they are floating 
> out of the door on the left, circling around Harry, and floating 
back 
> toward the door in the center.  This would explain the difference 
in 
> the direction of the flames, and also the blurred images of the 
> candles.  Harry has his wand raised in an upward position as if 
has 
> just invoked a charm, or may be controlling the candles with his 
> wand.   
> 


Hi Linda,

and good point about the candles. I've tried hard to not take part 
in the cover discussion because it's so massive already (and I also 
have to say that I'm not entirely convinced the cover image is an 
illustration of an actual scene - as someone said earlier, it could 
be made to depict a general mood or symbolic idea of what happens in 
the book), but since you came so close to what I thought was 
happening, well...

I also think that the candles themselves are moving. Have you 
considered the quality of the candles, then? Because I suspect that 
they're not real, solid candles. Ghostly candles? Is there such a 
thing? The death-day party candles in CoS were black, but they gave 
out a blue light like these here seem to. And these ones don't look 
very solid, do they? You can't really see the bottom ends of the 
ones in front, but the ones in the back just seem to fade away and 
not have a bottom end. 

The candles covered, I'm really interested in what's behind the 
doors - are they all (there seems to be a top corner of another 
doorway on the left, so I assume there's more than three) opening at 
the same time to reveal - what?? And has Harry possibly turned to 
face whatever's coming from a door behind him? This could be 
symbolic as well as a scene. Preparing for the horror that's coming 
closer.


Brin