Full View of UK HBP cover. SPOILER...

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I do hope this is sufficient "spoiler space." 

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "noesumeragi" 
<noesumeragi at y...> wrote:
Noe Responding to Heather the buzzard:
 
> > heather the buzzard wrote: 
> 
> > The ring belongs to the half-blood prince and is some indicator 
of 
> royalty.
> > The ring has a sort of serpentine look to it, so it's actually 
> Voldemort's.
> 
> noe now:
> well, it can be also seen as... a lighteing bolt, you know. Maybe 
it 
> was some... royal mark? maybe the ring owner is who has taht kind 
of 
> mark? But JKR said that the form of Harry's scar was not of 
> importance, itself...

Now me responding to both Noe and Heather:

A couple thoughts on the ring. The first thing that I thought when I 
looked at it was that it looks like a snake or cat eye. You know, the 
slitty pupil? However, I don't actually think it's supposed to bear 
any relation to Harry's lighting bolt scar; if it was, I would expect 
it to follow the same zigs and zags as his scar. The ring goes zag-
zig-zag and Harry's scar goes zig-zag-zig. And I'd expect the ring to 
be green or something like his eyes. But that's just me and I'm 
probably completely wrong because I don't think JKR would give us so 
obvious a hint as a green zig-zag-zig ring anyway. So, it might be 
connected to Harry's scar, but then there's the whole thing, as Noe 
pointed out, about the shape of Harry's scar not being important. 


Ok, I think Heather is speaking right here again:
 
> > The cave is at Hogwarts, hidden under the lake, or under the 
cliff.
> > The boat may not actually be gold, but just glowing from 
reflected 
> light.
> 
> you know, all that greeninsh light... it seem a ghost boat, to 
me... 
> maybe it means something from the past.
> > The cave and pensieve are in the Chamber of Secrets, which can be 
> > explored now that the basilisk is gone, and the pensieve is Tom 
> Riddle's.

Me again:

I won't speculate on the pensieve (I think it's a pensieve too, 
despite it's size; or maybe some sort of wash basin or...*shrugs*). I 
too think that the scene with the boat and the basin may be the 
Chamber of Secrets. But maybe not; I'm wondering about the little 
boat. The boat reminds me of the boats that the First Years use to 
cross the lake into Hogwarts. Perhaps there's some branch of water or 
something that splits off from the path normally taken by the First 
Years. That would still put the scene on the cover under Hogwarts, 
but that's all I can get out of that. 


Noe (I think):

 ok, first, it's that really a pensieve? It looks like one, but a lot 
> bigger. Remember that Dumbledore's could be carried along, as the 
> one Snape used (which I believe it was Dumbledore's, by the way) 

Me:

But I'm thinking it *is* a Pensieve because it seems like it may be 
the same bowl-ish object on the cover of the Scholastic version of 
the book (I think it's that one) where Harry and Dumbledore are 
looking perturbed and harried (no pun intended) and have their wands 
out. Maybe it's not the Pensive in the Bloomsbury edition that's big, 
maybe everything else is small. That's right folks, it was *really* 
Hobbits that built Hogwarts! I got nothin'.
 
Noe:
One arm looks a bit older; that's the HBP passing his powers on to 
> Harry.
> 
> maybe Dumbledore passing his powers on to Harry? 
> 

Me: 

And about the arm. I don't know whose arm it is, but I'm almost 
certain it's not Dumbledore's...Ok, not *certain*, but I suspect that 
it's not. The robe that the figure is wearing looks like it's black 
in color; I've never seen Dumbledore wear black robes. It's always 
something gaudy, like bright purple with golden suns and singing Blue 
birds or something. 

Which brings me back to my favorite suspect, Snape. *readers groan in 
dismay* Yes, here I go again. I just can't help it! I'm just trying 
to put together all of the clues that we have from all of the covers 
and I'm biased. The cover of Bloomsbury adult version of the book 
just sticks in my mind. The Potions book *has* to mean something in 
relation to the other cover scenes. Is the liquid in a pensieve a 
potion? If it is, what special about this particular pensieve in the 
cavern? And if it's not a pensieve, is the liquid in the bowl *still* 
a potion? And why?

And is the fire from the front cover with Dumbledore and Harry 
somehow related to the fire-looking stuff that twines around the two 
arms on the inside of the jacket? I think someone, not sure who, 
mentioned some kind of binding. It would be too easy for the joined 
hands connect to the front cover by being those of Dumbledore and 
Harry (and see my previous problem with the older hand being 
Dumbledore's). But what do I know? 

I don't know if anyone has posted this link. It's on Book 6 theories 
based on the covers and can be found at Mugglenet:

http://www.mugglenet.com/books/futurebooks/hbpcoverart.shtml

AyanEva