Full View of UK HBP cover. SPOILER...

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No: HPFGUIDX 130461

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "AyanEva" <ayaneva at a...> wrote:
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> 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?


Well, no actually, there is no reason whatsoever the potions book
should mean something in relation to other cover scenes.  The cover
art in the various editions is done by different artists who may well
choose unrelated scenes from the books.  Mary Gran Pre, who does the
American cover art, says that JKR has no real involvement in the
creation of the cover art.  Rather, each artist reads a draft of the
book and chooses a scene on which to base their art.  When they are
finished they forward a print to JKR who gives a thumbs up or thumbs
down.  The artists evidently don't communicate with each other and JKR
does not try to coordinate their work.


Lupinlore