HBP Deluxe Cover (Spoiler?)

[heather the buzzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 130411

Snow:
>My first response to the Deluxe cover of HBP, post 128791, was 
>that it was Godric's Hollow and that it had been allowed to be 
>protected by over growing its remains into a forest possibly 
>the Forbidden Forest.


heather the buzzard:

Problem with that, is that isn't the Forbidden Forest supposed to have been there for ages? How could all those beasts, who claim to actually have rights to the land there (Centaurs, for instance) 
have moved in in less than 10 years? Those trees grew mighty fast too -- though of course they could magically grow them... but again, I think it would be more common knowledge if a forest had suddenly sprung up right at the edge of Hogwarts barely a decade previous. Also, JKR has said that Godric's Hollow is an entire village, not just one house. Would there be an entire village butted up against the hogwarts grounds?

snow:
>Since then I have been (privately) attempting to prove the point 
>through a pattern that exists in past book chapters. Let me 
>explain. If this cover represents the Forbidden Forest and we know >that the second chapter of HBP is Spinners End then, can we assume >that Spinner represents Aragog? (This is the only glitch I see in >the theoryso far anyway) 


heather:
The problem with this is that it presumes a relationship between 
the cover and the second chapter.

The cover might be the forbidden forest, but the second chapter be 
something totally unrelated (for instance, one of the other 
theories, like that it's the name of an Estate).

Or the cover might be some other place -- perhaps even Godric's Hollow, but the second chapter is about Aragog. In either case, there's no actual relationship between the cover and the second chapter.

Now for your analyses of the second chapters, I'll ask, do any of them connect to the cover art (any cover art)?

snow:
>Book one chapter two- Harry spoke to a snake, although he didn't 
>realize how he was able to until much, much later. Harry also made 
>the glass disappear without the aid of a wand, which has yet to be 
>sufficiently explained, although he has performed this type of 
>magic since; most recently in the MOM when he asked the revolving 
>room "Where's the exit" and it immediately complied.


heather:

There has been a great deal of wandless magic performed in the 
books, by various characters. I thought I read an essay on it at 
the Harry Potter Lexicon recently, but of course NOW I can't find 
it heh...

snow:
>[snip other chapter 2s]
>In conclusion all the books so far has shown something that was 
>hinted at in chapter two but became clearer at the end of the 
>book. So my proposal, using this pattern is:


heather:

But I would counter that this is a fairly mundane thing for a 
second chapter to do... introduce a new element to set up a mystery or foreshadowing for a later payoff. It just makes structural sense.

snow:
>Book six chapter two- Spinners End (or the Forbidden Forest), will >be a prelude to the place that Harry will go to at the end of the >book. 


heather:

Again, this is with the assumption that the cover art is the second 
chapter (or at least, what the second chapter is hinting at). However, JKR has said that this time, Harry will leave the 
Dursley's for a happy reason. I can't see heading into a spider-infested forest being a happy thing... or even THINKING about it lol...

snow:
>Back at the Dursley's then. We know that Dumbledore is quite 
>aware of all that is said and done there. (If you need canon >examples, I'm more than happy to comply)


heather:

I've actually just read the Lexicon essay on the Put-Outers and possible surveillance on 4 Privet Drive, which was quite thought-provoking! I certainly agree that DD seems to be, um, unusually 
aware of what happens there!

snow:
>Dumbledore at this point needs to explain further 
>to Harry that which was blurted out by Petunia this is where the 
>Pencieve comes into play. Now, Harry would know of the background 
>of events but not visited the actual sitethat won't happen until >the end of the book that is if all the second chapters relate in >the same manner. This would be when we see Dumbledore and Harry >going through the woods. 


heather:

I do like the idea of Harry visiting the site and I hope it 
happens. However, I still think it's a stretch to try to combine this, PLUS the different covers, PLUS the second chapter title, 
all into one single plot element. I mean, why not assume that the covers have to do with "Draco's Detour"? Or assume that "Spinner's End" has to do with the Advanced Potions book on the adult version cover? It just doesn't follow. I doubt that JKR would give us so 
many interconnected clues ahead of the book's release.

heather the buzzard