News Flash! HBP covers released!

[slgazit]

No: HPFGUIDX 125762


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at s...> wrote:
> Well, I have thought of one possibility, GEO.  The U.S. cover shows 
> Harry & DD looking at what appears to be a pensieve, and there is a 
> lot of eery green light emanating from it and swirling around them.  
> Green light makes me think immediately of one thing:  an AK.  Since 
> a pensieve replays memories, I'd think it might be possible that the 
> cover depiction *is* of a flashback of sorts, maybe even of the 
> events of GH if DD has a reason to possess a memory of it.  Harry's 
> gaining THAT information would certainly be significant enough to 
> warrant a cover reference.

That was my initial thinking as well, but I am not sure. DD was not at
GH so how could he possibly remember what was there (maybe Snape's
memory)? Harry was a baby, and spared the gruesome details or he would
have seen these winged horses (sorry - forgot the name for them - the
ones who one can only see if they witnessed death) before OoP, so it
can't be his memory either, or can it?

On mugglenet were three covers - the US one showing Harry and DD
looking into a pensieve like stone caulderon, the British kids cover
shows the same pair in the midst of a fire storm. The British adult
cover shows a potions book. Putting all these together, I am guessing
that the two covers showing Harry and DD probably represent different
time snapshots in the same sequence of events. The potion book may be
responsible to concocting that mysterious potion or instruct how to
create a pensieve?

I guess we'll find out in four more months...

Salit