Book Covers

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 166983

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at ...> wrote:

> My first impression of the U.S. version is that they are behind the 
> veil, because of the curtains on each side. The sky is the color 
> that we associate with Fawkes, with fire, with DD.  The strange 
> building behind looks like the Colosseum in Rome, but I think that 
> the Hogwarts Express train also runs on something that looks like 
> that.  

Geoff:
I think that the probability of the train being involved in the way you 
mention it is very low. In all the books so far, JKR makes only passing 
references to the scenery outside the train.

You are digressing into the world of "the medium that dare not speak 
its name". Just for information, the structure you refer to only occurs 
in the films and is, in fact, the Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland 
line from Fort William to Mallaig.

So, unless JKR specifically brings this into Book 7, I doubt very much 
whether the cover drawing is meant to hint at the train's involvement.