HBP full cover design

[Hannah]

No: HPFGUIDX 126901


> > 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. 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.  
> 
> I also think they are looking at the dark mark, and with the 
skyline 
> in the background my guess is that there is a scene in OotP in 
which 
> the dark mark appears in the London sky (or perhaps some other 
> muggle city -- the skyline looks too urban to be Hogsmeade).  
Didn't 
> JKR say that with the war beginning in earnest, muggles would 
begin 
> to notice some strange things going on?
> 
> Inkling

Hannah:  Hang on, I just had a thought.  Are the three figures, the 
skyline and the Dark Mark actually part of a separate illustration 
altoghether?  Perhaps this is the back cover illustration, and it's 
been superimposed onto the front cover image for the purpose of the 
promotion. 

I don't really know how the book covers work for the US versions, 
but the UK ones have one picture on the front, and an unrelated one 
on the back.  So if the same applies to US editions, and the new 
parts of the image are actually from the back cover, then the two 
images aren't necessarily related.  So the 'three watchers' almost 
certainly aren't watching, or being watched.

Have I just embarrassed myself and stated the obvious?  Or have I 
had a good idea?  I need input from people with US versions and 
those who know more about art and cover designing than I do 
(virtually everyone, I'd imagine!)

Hannah