"Reading" the books covers: some clues and possible spoilers

[saavi]

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I know I'm not the first one who theorizes about what can we
"read" 
in the different versions of the "HP and the HBP" covers, but
I just 
wanted to share my ideas.  And please forget the grammar: my first 
language is Spanish.

Now, about the images shown in the Bloomsbury (children edition) 
cover:

•	When I look at them, I see fear in Harry's and
Dumbledore's 
faces, so they must be in a battle and with possibilities to loose 
it.

•	I can't see any fire coming out of Harry's wand, only
from 
Dumbledore's.  Besides, I don't think the fire is meant to
attack, 
but to protect; otherwise it wouldn't be around Harry and 
Dumbledore, but directed toward an enemy.

•	But then we see the joined hands with the same circles of 
fire around them.  Maybe Dumbledore's powers are not enough to 
defeat their enemy (Voldy?).  He needs to join powers with Harry and 
my guess is that Harry's powers must be unique and related with
the 
green in his and Lily's eyes.  And that takes us to the green
light.

•	Whatever is inside that cauldron/pensive, it has its own 
light (we can see how this light reflects itself against the boat).  
And I don't think that the container is the important object
here, 
but the content: the green light or green fire.  Let's call it
the 
green fire.  Could it be that Lily and Harry are the only ones who 
can access to the power of this green fire?  Could it be that Voldy 
needs these powers too and that is why he was willing to forgive 
Lily's live?  It would be too much of a coincidence for this fire
to 
be green, just the same as Harry's and Lily's eyes.

•	I also used to think that this green fire was in the chamber 
of secrets and maybe that the reason why Lily never used the fire 
against Voldy is that she didn't know where to find it.  Or she 
didn't know that it existed :)

•	Let's suppose for a minute that Lily (and the OOP members) 
did not reach the green fire because they didn't know how to get
to 
the Chamber of Secrets.  Now Harry can access the chamber and 
Dumbledore knows this.  Then why didn't Dumbledore ask Harry to
look 
after this green fire before?  If you look at the US deluxe edition 
cover art of book six, you can see Harry and Dumbledore walking in a 
forest.  A very dark and greenish forest.  So, maybe the green fire 
(or thing) is not in the Chamber of Secrets, but in the forbidden 
forest.  Until know, all the interesting things have been hidden 
there.

•	So: Lily and the OOP members know about this green fire and 
its power, but they don't know how to get it.  Here is where the
HBP 
enters the scene.  My guess is that the HBP is the only one who 
knows how to get to the green fire.  And maybe the ring (the one in 
the Bloomsbury cover) belongs to him.


•	That ring can be a clue of how to find the way to the green 
fire or a key to open the way that lead to the green fire (or 
stuff
).  If you ask me, I think that ring is broken.  I know
many 
people see a lighting bolt or a snake in it, but to me it looks 
broken.  Harry can expend the whole book trying to figure out how to 
make a broken ring work... after he finds out that the rings is good 
for something, of course.

•	And finally, the cover for the British adult edition: we 
only see a really old book that (to me) looks a lot like a school 
text book. "Advanced potion making", by "Libalius
Borage".  The book 
has something like and old sticker in the upper side of the cover, 
the kind of sticker you use to put your name in your school books.  
But we cannot read any names in that sticker.  Maybe the book 
belongs to the HBP and here we have a clue that this "prince"
has 
advanced knowledge about potion making.  Could it be Snape?  Maybe, 
maybe someone older.


And going back to that fire coming out of Dumbledore's wand: 
does 
anyone know what kind of core does Dumbledore's wand have?  I bet
it 
is a phoenix feather (not Fawkes, of course, but there must be more 
than one Phoenix.)  And could it be possible that Dumbledore has the 
same powers as a Phoenix?  After all his patronus is a phoenix (said 
by the mighty powerful JKR) 

Oh, and does anyone have the back of the US edition cover?  I could 
only find the front.  Very green cover, indeed.