Libalius vs. Libatius + covers

[dungrollin]

No: HPFGUIDX 125805


Karen wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that's a 't' and not an 'l', and here's why:
> 
> Look at the ascender on the letter 'b' - it's actually a bit higher
> than the capitals. The vertical element of the letter in question
> clearly does not go anywhere near that high, and it would be a
> stangely designed font that has such a discrepancy. A small 't', on
> the other hand, usually is much shorter than than 'b', 'h', 'l', 
> etc. So, even though I can't see the crossmark, I'm sure that's 
> a 't'.
> 
> Something that bothers me about the picture of the book - although 
> the book itself looks tattered and old, perhaps *very* old, the 
> lettering and graphics look modern, in fact, they look computer 
> generated (as opposed to hand lettering or mechanical type). 
> Worse, it looks to me like the title etc. were simply photoshopped 
> rather than actually applied to a real book. So all of you out 
> there waiting for that prop to auctioned off for charity, don't 
> hold your breath...
> 
> Karen, who could be wrong about the photoshopping, but is pretty 
> darn sure about the 't'


I think you're absolutely right about the photoshopping. If you draw 
an imaginary line from the point in the centre of the swirly 
flourishes at the top (above 'Harry Potter') to the point in the 
centre of the swirly flourishes at the bottom (below 'Libatius 
Borage') it's not parallel with the left margin of the book; and you 
can't put that down to perspective, because it's way way off 
parallel with the right hand margin of the book, too. I feel cheated.

But to drag this back on-topic, I'm not sure that we can guess 
anything from it, it's just Harry's potions textbook, and when was 
Adalbert Waffling significant?

As for the pensieve on the US cover, it's true the light coming out 
of it is green. The description from GoF is thus:

"A shallow stone basin lay there, with odd carvings around the edge; 
runes and symbols that Harry did not recognise. The silvery light 
was coming from the basin's contents, which were like nothing Harry 
had ever seen before."

(I'm sure that somewhere the pensieve is also described as 
a 'chipped stone basin', but I can't find where.) Silver light, not 
green light, it says. Why green? SSSusan says "Because they're 
watching the AK display at Godric's Hollow, of course!" Perfectly 
possible. On the other hand, from an artistic perspective, silvery 
light is effectively white light, which is extremely boring to draw. 
Candlelight is yellow, even sunshine is yellow; sunsets make nice 
pictures not only because of the pretty colours of the sky, but 
because the pink light softens everything else too. White light is 
difficult and not visually interesting (it's also why you always 
look terrible under neon strip-lights).

But why *green*? Why not blue? (GoF was blue.) Well why not red or 
purple or orange light then? SSSusan's right, the green light *is* 
suggestive, in a way that other colours would not be. However, I'm 
not holding out for a full and frank disclosure of what happened at 
Godric's Hollow; I'm expecting to have to wait for that until book 7.
I almost don't want to get my hopes up.

Dungrollin
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