Full HBP cover artwork

[mfterman]

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We have a redheaded boy, a girl with brown hair, and a redheaded girl.
We have the redheaded boy and the girl with brown hair standing close
to one another.

Now logically, unless we're recreating a specific scene from the book,
we'd expect the most significant characters of the book to appear on
the cover along with Harry. The most significant five characters as of
the end of book five, besides Harry and Dumbledore are Ron, Hermione,
Ginny, Neville and Luna, in approximately that order.

Luna is a straggly blonde and drawn much different than the girl, and
Neville is described as much different from the boy that appears on
the cover. The simplest and best fit is Ron and Hermione on one side
and Ginny on the other.

Why is Ginny on one side all by herself? Well, it would unbalance the
picture to have all three on one side. Second off, if you had Ron,
Hermione and Ginny and had to break them into two on one side and one
on the other how would you be likely to do that? Ron and Hermione are
closer to each other than Ginny, and so it makes sense to pair them
up.

On the other girl's "ghostlike appearance", it should be noticed that
Ron and Hermione are cut off at a certain point horizontally, and in
fact the girl is cut off at the same level, it's just cut higher on
her because she's shorter, and one of the things that has been
mentioned about Ginny is that she's challenged in the height
department. Having it be Ginny instead of Lily takes a lot less
epxlanation.

In short, I think a lot of people are trying to read too much into
this. This is just showing some of Harry's closest friends, his inner
circle, and the simplest and cleanest fit without any elaborate
explanation is that it happens to be those three. Sometimes a cigar is
just a cigar, and in this case I don't think there's any mystery or
surprise here. Some people may want there to be one, but in this case
I think there's less here than meets the eye.

mfterman