Illustrator info? [was: Re: Where is Pettigrew?]

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 91883

Heather wrote:  
> > I think that there is a huge clue on the bonus jacket art for the 
> > special boxed American edition.  There is clearly a rat hiding in 
> the 
> > grass out side GP.  Many have suspected that animal are able to 
> > perceive magically hidden places and people.  Is it possible that 
> PP 
> > is in fact spying on the Order through out the book

Potioncat wrote: 
> I can't recall where I read it. But my understanding is that the 
> American illustrator did not have any "inside" information and had 
> not been allowed to read the book at all when she did  the various 
> illustrations.  So the rat would have to be taken with a grain of 
> salt.
> 

Susan now:
I do not own the boxed set, but rather individual U.S. edition 
hardbacks.  If, however, you are talking about Mary GrandPre as the 
illustrator of the box cover art, then she most definitely *DID* read 
the book in advance of illustrating it. I think it was the U.K. 
illustrator who did not read OoP, but I remember reading, from a 
Leaky Cauldron link, before OoP ever came out, an interview with Mary 
GP in which it was pointed out that she was one of only a couple of 
people who *did* see an advance copy.

This is NOT to say that she necessarily knows anything about books 6 
or 7 or later series details.  

Siriusly Snapey Susan