'Snake' on breastplate (Was: Book Covers)

[Peter J. Wagner]

No: HPFGUIDX 166940

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


"Peter J. Wagner" <pjwagner3 at ameritech.net> writes:

Oops: I goofed!  I meant to to write Cockroft!  It's his cover, after all.

That being said, what on the CoS cover is supposed to be a basilisk?  I can see the phoenix, certainly (and it is extremely similar to the breast plate).  But none of the snakes there look to be the basilisk, and nor do any of them have beaks!

If it was a basilisk, then I would hazard the guess that they are in Slytherin's tomb.  That certainly might be a place where Voldemort would hide a Horcrux: IF its location was generally unknown, of course.