[HPforGrownups] Re: UK Cover closeup - comments on the ring (no real spoilers)

[Laura Lynn Walsh]

No: HPFGUIDX 130510

>Tammy Rizzo wrote:
>
>>><http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=/hbp/ring.gif>http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=/hbp/ring.gif
>>>
>>>
>>>  ~*S*~
>>>  ~*P*~
>>>  ~*O*~
>>>  ~*I*~
>>>  ~*L*~
>>>  ~*E*~
>>>  ~*R*~
>>>  ~*~
>>>  ~*~
>  >> SPACE
>>>







>Anyway.  I agree with you that it looks like a crack -- like you 
>said, it extends over the beveled edge, and I agree that there
>seems to be a shield etched on the face, though that *could* also 
>just be ridges from whatever cracked it.

The problem with the crack idea is that the beveled edges still
seem to be parallel and it the appropriate places.  I would think
that a crack of that magnitude would deform the rest of the
setting. or at least the parallel edges of the bevels.

>I like to think that it's a family stone, perhaps with a coat of 
>arms.  If it belongs to the Black family, then it cracked when
>Sirius died (as the last real "Black").  Perhaps it's a
>birthstone... Onyx belongs to February (along with Amethyst, which
>is interesting since on the full cover it does look purple), but
>none of the characters (that we know of) have February birthdays.

I would like to believe the shield idea, but it looks like an eye
to me - or at least a shield with some sort of arch over it.  The
crack isn't quite close enough to Harry's scar for me to be
convinced of that connection.

But I withdraw my speculation that it looked like a snake on
the cover of the book.  :-)

Laura Walsh   lwalsh at acsalaska.net