[HPforGrownups] Re: Full View of UK HBP cover. SPOILER...

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 130509

>--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Laura Lynn Walsh <lwalsh at a...>
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>>  >After looking at the image of the boat, I noticed that the
>>  >reflection doesn't exactly match the object that is the
>>  >boat.  If you turn the image of the cover upside down, it
>>  >appears that there is almost a ghostly Dumbledore-like
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>Tonks:
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>I took the image into my photo editor and was able to see the old
>man in the boat too. And I also saw that the bottom of the Pensive/
>Chalice??  has markings on it, but I can't make them out. The
>marking I was looking for would have been on the larger stone. I was
>looking for Necromanancer symbols, but there was nothing there. But
>there is something on the base of the pensive thingy. And I can't
>make out the writing on the way. Is there someone here with a better
>photo editor that can see this stuff??  Also maybe the ring has a
>rune marking on it.
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>Tonks_op
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I keep looking and now I think that the upside down boat looks like
there is a man with a bushy white beard on the left, a darker round
object over his left shoulder (a boy's face?) and a round bright object
over the darker round thing (a moon?, a hole in the ceiling?).  My
interpretation of it:  probably Dumbledore, probably Harry, and
probably the hole in the ceiling (why would you be able to see the
moon in an underground cavern-like place?).  Why can't you see
them in the "real" image?  Invisibility cloak?  Invisibility spell?
The image lingers after the people are gone?

The wall behind it (right side up now), I can see in two different
ways.  In one way, it looks like an alligator-like monster, with
its mouth open to the right.  In the other way, it looks like the
head of a dragon, eyes to the right and upward, snout down and
to the left, with a curly tendril coming up from the end of the
snout and possibly one eye damaged.  My suggestion - it looks
like dragons have something to do with the chamber, especially
since the thing on the pedestal seems to have clawed feet.

The ring:  I can't make it look like anything other than a fat
eel-like serpent - a graduation ring for Slytherin house
members? :-)

The base under the pedestal seems to be divided into 12 sections
- months? twelve uses of dragon's blood?  Zodiac?  The pedestal
itself (nomenclature?) seems to be divided into 6 sections.  It
almost looks like there are vague facelike markings in two of
those sections - a blond haired one with a sort of crown on the
right, a long necked one on the left (reddish hair).  I know this
is stretching it a lot, because you could probably convince yourself
that almost anything is on there.  But, oh well, if I am guessing,
I might as well guess.

I think the arms look definitely like one older and one younger,
corresponding to the front cover? - Harry and DD?  I didn't see
them as arm-wrestling, though, but rather holding on to control
or transfer some energy.

Probably over-interpretation of the whole thing.
Laura Walsh   lwalsh at acsalaska.net