[HPforGrownups] Re: Pensieves, Potions, and Peril: The HBP Covers

[Gregory Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 125809

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:02:31 +0200, Shunra Shunrata <shunrata at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Arcum wrote:
> | And for the truly obsessive... why is Harry holding his wand in
> | his *left* hand in front of the pensieve/potion/artifact, when
> | he is, in fact, right handed?
> 
> I've obsessed about this a few times already, this is now the third time in
> a row Harry is holding his wand in his left hand on the (Scholastic) cover.
> 
> Ideas?
> 
> Shunra
> 

Perhaps the point is that Harry Potter is us.  After all, if we were
standing in front of a mirror holding a wand in our right hand, it
would appear in the mirror as if it were in the left hand.  And Harry
Potter is a very everyman-ish kind of name.

-- 
Gregory Lynn