News Flash! HBP covers released!

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 125784


> > Hannah orginally:  Lack of relevance?  Well, the front cover of 
UK PS shows  the Hogwarts express - not the most vital plot element 
in that  book, and that of UK CoS shows the flying car - again, not 
terribly  relevant to the ultimate plot, though great fun.
> 
> GEO replied: But I don't believe those initial books had adult 
editions so 
> those examples aren't really comparable in my opinion.

Hannah now:  You're partly right.  I just checked Amazon, and those 
books did have adult editions but the covers are different to how I 
thought (though I could have sworn that there was an adult edition 
of CoS at some point with a stylised car on the front).  Anyway, the 
cover pictures on Amazon are of a red stone for PS, and a door with 
snakes on (not the film version) for CoS, so your point about the 
comparability is valid.

Hannah originally:  
> > I don't think the other pensieve scenes have been irrelevant 
> > either.  

> GEO replied: But do you think the courtroom scene in GoF or the 
flashback to  the Hogwarts of Snape's time would have made a good 
cover for Goblet  of Fire or Order of the Phoenix? I for one think 
they wouldn't have  and would have been very misleading if the 
publishers actually did.  They may be relevant and important to the 
plot, but certainly not  coverworthy.

Hannah: Oh yes, I'd agree with that.  But we don't know what the 
nature of the flashback scenes in HBP will be, and how important to 
the plot, and how much of a part the book may or may not play in 
those scenes, if any.  So it could be that the book is part of an 
important flashback sequence.  At the end of the day, I don't 
suppose we'll know until HBP comes out :-)

Hannah