Full HBP cover artwork

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> vmonte:
> 
> I think they are all looking at the Dark Mark that is in the sky. 
You 
> can see the head of the mark over the two figures on the left and 
the 
> tail end over the red headed girl on the right. 


John:
Ron looks as if he's wearing a dressing-gown. Maybe he's been port-
keyed back to The Burrow in the middle of the night, after another 
of Harry's visions, only to find the dark mark hovering above his 
house? Yikes! Molly and Arthur and all the rest
I just can't bear 
the thought of it!


vmonte: 
I think that the 
> image below is what Harry and Dumbledore are watching in the 
> penseive. They are looking at a memory. We still need some 
> information about what happened at GH. If the figure on the right 
is 
> Lily, why is she alone? Where is James? There is a very dreamy 
> quality to that figure. The artist has painted her with less 
detail 
> giving her a softer look. So,it may very well be a penseive memory 
> involving Lily.  
> 

John:
It looks as if Lily's looking up at someone—Voldy? If I'm not 
mistaken, this is her begging him for mercy ("Take me! Not 
Harry,I'll do anything, etc."). This, after all, is perhaps the most 
crucial moment in the series and, in response to vmonte, by that 
stage James was already dead (I think).

It does seem as if that night, and finding out exactly what 
transpired on it, could be the central theme of this book. JKR has 
as good as told us that the first chapter is indeed an account of 
GH, hasn't she?

John.