UK Cover closeup - comments on the ring (no real spoilers)

[jim potter]

No: HPFGUIDX 130527

>heather the buzzard:
>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"). <snip> 
>
>I also like the idea that the ring belongs (or belonged) to the 
>HBP, who is an ancient, historical character and so this ring is 
>an antique, cracked with age.
>
><snip> Perhaps it belonged to the Potters, and it cracked under 
>LV's AK spell in the same pattern as it left on Harry at the same >time, and there's some connection between that ring and the 
>'ancient magic' that protects him.


A passage from OoP:

"They found an unpleasant-looking silver instrument, something like 
a many-legged pair of tweezers, which scuttled up Harrys arm like a spider when he picked it up, and attempted to puncture his skin. Sirius seized it and smashed it with a heavy book entitled Nature's Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy.(...)

"Several times Kreacher sidled into the room and attempted to 
smuggle things away under his loincloth, muttering horrible curses every time they caught him at it. When Sirius wrested a large golden ring bearing the Black crest from his grip, Kreacher actually burst into furious tears and left the room sobbing under his breath and calling Sirius names Harry had never heard before.

'It was my father's,' said Sirius, throwing the ring into the sack. 
'Kreacher wasn't quite as devoted to him as to my mother, but 1 
still caught him snogging a pair of my father's old trousers last week.' "

"seusilva"