FYI -- Mugglenet has posted high-res version of the back cover of HBP

[Tonks]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "prncssme" <prncssme at y...> >
> Princess Sara:
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> I think it's supposed to be Ron, not Harry, especially with the
> long thin nose and the reddish hair. Which would explain the lack
of glasses. I'm also thinking that the "mystery student" behind Ron
could be a Patil twin...or Dean Thomas. I'm thinking Patil girl
because the face seems slightly feminine to me but I will admit that
>my first thought was Dean.

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Tonks:
I also think that it is Ron, Hermione and Ginny. First Ginny looks
somewhat the same as she did on the cover of CS. And the facial
features of the girl on the right(IMO Ginny) and the boy are
simular, meaning that they are from the same family. Now my first
thought was that the boy was Bill. But there looks like hints of
others there too, not just the figure in the back, so now I think
that we are seeing memebers of the DA.

Often this artist put bits and pieces of story into the art, so we
may not be able to think of this as one scene.

Who cast the dark mark? Are members of the DA off to Hogsmead and
on their way back? Course this would be against what I just said
above, if on the way back they saw the darkmark over Hogwarts.

It would also not be looking well for my good friend (love of my
life) Albus, if that Darkmark is over Hogwarts. Oh, I AM going to be
depressed, very depressed. Maybe they should give out boxes of
Kleenix with each book.

Tonks_op