HBP full cover design

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 126905


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" <hannahmarder at y...> 
wrote:
> 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.

Tonks here:

It seems to me that the US book covers often have important images 
from the key scene of the book.  And the front pictures blends into 
the back so that when you open the cover out it all goes together.

For example:

PA shows Harry and Ginny on Buckbeak with an image/shadow of Sirius 
under them which blends into the image on the back of a Dementor and 
a black dog, a strange tree and some sort of animal, and a crescent 
moon.  It is all very symbolic of what is in the book, but we do not 
know that until we have read it all.

OP shows Harry (left handed, which I LOVE.) on the cover in the 
MoM.  We do not know it is the MoM until we read the whole book.  
But there he is in the MoM in the room with candles and doors.  This 
image continues to the back image where, still in the MoM, Madeye 
Moody, Tonks, and someone else are there.  The veil is there with 
Sirius in what looks like a doorway next to it. There is another 
door with a shadow of someone reflected on the floor.  These are all 
scenes from the battle of the MoM.  We would never have been able to 
figure any of it out before we read the book.

I don't have the other books handy.  But this is how GrandPre does 
her work.  Again, I LOVE left handed Harry!!  Of course all really 
good wizards are left handed.  ;-)

Tonks_op