Full View of UK HBP cover. SPOILER...

[AyanEva]

No: HPFGUIDX 130462

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lupinlore" <bob.oliver at c...> 
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> > I do hope this is sufficient "spoiler space." 
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> 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.
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> Lupinlore

Just as you said, the artists read the *same* drafts and, presumably, 
choose something that they think is poignant for the cover art. And 
JKR approves said choice. It would seem to me that the scenes that 
the various artists choose to depict, being important and all 
(theoretically), AND approved by JKR, should provide some clues that 
can be pieced together. 

I'm making a huge leap of logic that all of the important bits in the 
book are interconnected, the artists choose from various bits that 
they feel are important and these are likely to *be* the actual 
important and interconnected bits (so far Gran Pre has been right on, 
so it's not such a far out theory). Therefore all of the covers 
should bear some relation to each other and hold important clues that 
connect together somehow. 

I admit that rather than going something like A-B-C-D, the covers 
could end up going B-F-I-Z, each element (or letter in this case) is 
important but huge chunks are missing that prevent us from figuring 
out any of the potential plot. 

But I really think the covers have something to do with each other 
and, taken together, can allude to more of the forthcoming story than 
just one cover studied alone.

I love reading into things! Fruitless, but fun! *grin*


AyanEva