Full View of UK HBP cover. SPOILER...

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No: HPFGUIDX 130430

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlv230" <jlv230 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Chancie " <chnc1024 at e...> 
> wrote:
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> > 
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Chancie <chnc1024 at e...>
> > > To: HP4GU <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
> > > Date: 6/10/2005 8:09:44 AM
> > > Subject: [HPforGrownups] Full View of UK HBP cover. SPOILER...
> > >
> > > Hi, with all the talks of what's on the covers, 
> > > I thoughts some of you might like to see the 
> > > full cover of the UK edition of HBP.  they 
> > > removed the summary from the back as well.
> > >
> > > The link is:
> > > http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?
> image_location=/june10/fullukhbpcover.jpg
> > >
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> > > The back cover shows a pensive (or what most of us assume
> > > to be a pensive) in an underground cave with water in it.  The
> > > "pensive" is siting on a circular stone platform in the middle 
of
> > > the "lake".  There also appears to be a gold looking boat.  
There
> > > are marks on the cave wall, but I don't think they are 
supposed 
> > > to be words from all I can tell...  Can anyone see anything 
I've 
> > > missed?
> > >
> > >

Inkling now:

By chance I spent a good part of this morning looking through an 
illustrated book on the Grail Legends and when I saw the full UK 
cover I nearly fell off my chair.

Now I know this is a big, big leap but that Chalice-like object with 
light streaming from it certainly resembles the Grail.  And it 
wouldn't be the first time that JKR has taken a legend of Western 
esoteric lore and presented it as a literal object -- the 
Philosopher's Stone, the Veil between the worlds.

Also the little boat -- the Grail legends are ull of journeys in 
boats large and small, the most famous maybe being the journey 
Arthur took after his final battle, the journey by boat to Avalon.

Just wildly speculating -- !!! :-)

The interlocked, fire enlaced hands looks like a touch of Marvel 
Comics  -- POW!  ZAP!  Can't wait!

Inkling