[HPforGrownups] Veil and Archway Don't Match OOP Descriptions

[Kimberly]

No: HPFGUIDX 166981

Angie wrote:

The veil in the MOM is described as follows:

"Unsupported by any surrounding wall, the archway was hung with a
tattered black curtain or veil, which, despite the complete stillness
of the cold surrounding air, was fluttering very slightly as though
it had just been touched." OOP, U.S. edition at 773.

Also, it may just be me, but I got the impression that the MOM veil
hung straight down, maybe in one panel -- there is no suggestion that
it was parted or that Harry saw thru it. In fact, Harry went around
to the other side of the veil to see what was on the other side.

For those who might suggest the veil looks different from "the other
side", when Harry looked at the back of the veil, "All that could be
seen was the other side of the tattered black veil."




Kimberly's turn:
Now see, I got the impression that it was described pretty accurately
to what we saw on the cover.

OotP, Amer. Ed. pg. 773
"...They were standing on the topmost tier of what seemed to be stone
benches running all around the room and descending in steep steps like an
amphitheater, or the courtroom in which Harry had been tried by the
Wizengamot.  Instead of a chained chair, however, there was a raised stone
dais in the center of the lowered floor, and upon this dais stood a stone
archway that looked so ancient, cracked, and crumbling that Harry was amazed
the thing was still standing.  Unsuppported by any surrounding wall, the
archway was hung with a tattered black curtain or veil which, despite the
complete stillness of the cold surrounding air, was fluttering very slightly
as though it had just been touched."

Except for the color, I thought it sounded like the same place.   The
stone benches around the room, the center being lower, a stone cracked
and crumbled archway.   As for the veil being all one piece rather than
parted as it was on the cover.   That could be purely to lend itself
an artistic presence.   MGP probably wanted to use the veil but if
she made it all one piece we wouldn't have been able to see the
rest of the scene she was depicting.

Kimberly, who is convinced that Harry is in control of the
situation on the cover and that LV looks for the first time,
a bit worried.