[HPforGrownups] My ideas about the covers

[Shylah]

No: HPFGUIDX 166780

On 3/29/07, Dave Hardenbrook <DaveH47 at mindspring.com> wrote:
>
>   UK version:
>
> -- I'm not crazy about the appearance of Harry -- I think he
> looks like Ted Danson!
>
> -- I think the fourth being in the scene might be (in order of
> likelihood):
>
> 1. An new house-elf (None we've met are likely sword-wielders)
> 2. Kreacher (That wrinkled forehead suggests age to me)
> 2. Dobby (But if so, where's his tea-cozy hat??) :)
> 4. A Gringotts Goblin (only if this *is* Gringotts)
>
> -- I guess the fact that we see just the Trio (and a House Elf?)
> in the scene precludes my hoped-for scenario of Ginny
> "crashing the party", so to speak...
>
> US version:
>
> -- Those things that look like tree stumps and fragments
> of splinted wood (a fence?) make me think this scene is
> outdoors. I also think that the object behind Harry's
> right hand (it doesn't look to me like he's actually
> touching it) is another tree stump, not a tombstone.
> Not sure about the rock-like thing to Harry's left...
>
> -- I frankly don't know why so many assume those curtains are
> "The Veil", which is described as *black*: "... the archway
> was hung with a tattered black curtain or veil..."
> -- OoP, US ed, p. 773.
>
> -- Does anyone else find it intriguing that Harry's pose is
> almost a mirror image of his pose on the cover of SS?
> Could this be significant in any way other than
> highlighting how much Harry has matured (and how much
> Granpre's artwork has improved over time)? Is it at all
> possible that the final confrontation will be airborne??
>
> Dave
>


Tanya

First of all sorry for the poor trimming, I can't seem to do it with the new
improved email service.

After looking at the book covers myself, I would like to know what that
oversized object, medallion, or whatever, is around Harry's neck in the US
version.  I also wonder why he doesn't look particually scared.  I would
need to be able to see more foreground to be absolutely certain but the more
I look at it, the more I wonder if it's a turning point in Harry's favour of
a brief window in a longer fight.  He seems to be advancing, the way his
upper body is.

However it's possible that it could be two different scenes meshed
together.  There seem to be people in the background on a higher level.

Tanya


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