And now for something completely different...

[mt3t3l1]

No: HPFGUIDX 137881

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lagattalucianese" 
<katmac at k...> wrote:
 
> I've noticed quite a few discrepancies between the text and the
> GrandPre illustrations, though of course now that I need an example,
> none springs nimbly to mind.
> 
> A friend who writes romance novels tells me this is an ongoing 
problem
> between writers and illustrators; apparently illustrators are under 
as
> tight a schedule as everybody else, and don't take time to read the
> book carefully, if indeed they read it at all. Was GrandPre
> hand-picked by JKR, or someone foisted on her by the publisher? Did
> she do the art for the British editions as well?


Ah! That probably explains the other mysterious element of the US 
cover of HBP--why Dumbledore's right hand (presumably his wand hand) 
is quite intact, rather than "blackened and shriveled;...as though 
his flesh had been burned away." (US edition, page 48.)

As we all know, the Harry Potter books aren't drug store romances 
produced on a shoestring budget. I would have expected the editors to 
edit the pictures as well as the text. I guess I learn something new 
every day.

Merrylinks