[HPforGrownups] Re: 'Snake' on breastplate (Was: Book Covers)

[Deborah Krupp]

No: HPFGUIDX 166935

 Peter J Wagner:
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 Still, what we really need is a prior picture of a basilisk by GrandPré: she might not have drawn what Rowling described.
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Deborah writes:

If you look at the cover of the American Hardback Edition of Chamber of Secrets, you will see both a depiction of Fawkes and that of a basilisk drawn by GranPre.

I think you can make a case that the animal on the breastplate does closely resemble Fawkes, though his neck is not quite as long or undulating as the one on the armor appears to be.  It is close enough though, that it could be intentionally ambiguous.

The basilisk depicted does have a rather pointy snout which might be described as being beak-like.