Full HBP cover artwork

[Hannah]

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> Lindsay wrote:
> 
> The Leaky Cauldron says that the marketers just released these 
large
> stand-up cover art for HBP.  At the bottom, there are three kids
> looking up at Harry and Dumbledore.
> Who do you think each one is?
> 
> I definitely think that the right girl is Ginny.  
> 
> To the left, the boy's hair is more brown then red, and no freckles
> (which Ron normally has when GrandPre draws him), so I don't think
> that is Ron, nor really any of the Weasleys.  My first reaction is
> Seamus, because the boy's face is too angular to be Neville's...but
> since we know we're going to be seeing Zabini coming up, that 
could be
> him!  I *think* that is a green scarve he is wearing.  If we go for
> Slytherin, could also be Nott.  Or it could be any number of kids 
in
> the DA, but my money is on Blaise, Seamus, Theodore, in that order.
> 
> As for the black haired girl - she COULD be Cho, but she really
> doesn't look Asian, and I think Cho is going to be taking a back-
seat,
> anyway.  She also doesn't look Indian, so I doubt she is one of the
> Patil sisters.  She's too cute to be Bulstrode.  Pansy, Luna and
> Hannah are blondes.  Susan's hair up until this point is long and 
kept
> in a plait.
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Hannah:  Thanks for the link, Lindsay!  This is very interesting...

I personally think the boy on the far left is Ron, as he has a sharp 
nose like Ron has, though I'm not familiar with Mary GrandPre's 
illustrations.  The boy next to him (I thought it was a boy anyway) 
I think is Neville, as he has a soft, rounded look about his face.  
The red headed girl is probably Ginny, though maybe it's Lily as you 
say.  If the other boys are Ron and Neville, it makes more sense for 
it to be Ginny.

What did interest me was the picture of the Dark Mark on the left 
halfway down, which appears to be cast into the air above a town/ 
village skyline (it stretches across the length of the page).  
Godric's Hollow in a pensieve?  Or Hogsmeade under attack?

If the three watchers are actually watching DD and Harry, it makes 
the pensieve theory less likely, as I don't suppose there'd be much 
to see.  It also looks like the pensieve is much taller than it is 
described in canon... I had been convinced it was a pensieve in the 
picture, but now I'm not so sure.  Is it just artistic licence?

So many questions!  Mainly hinging on; is it a picture of the past 
(Godric's Hollow for example), or of actual events that are going to 
happen (the Dark Mark and shocked expressions spell bad news for 
DD).  And if it is Ron, Ginny and Neville (or another character), 
where is Hermione?  

Hannah