Figgses and Fiddlesticks & Pausanias (Was: Book Covers)

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 166951

Carol:

> By the way, if the Bloomsbury children's cover artist 
> is the same one who drew the original back cover of the 
> children's edition of PS (not Dumbledore, but the 
> mysterious brown-bearded wizard)

http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/ps/rg-ps00.html

houyhnhnm:

I followed the link to have a look.  That page also shows 
the Scholastic cover art for *SS*.  Although, I have the 
book right beside me, it took a bright digital image to 
make notice the arches on the SS cover and ask myself what 
they represent.  Harry is on his broom reaching for the 
snitch, so he must be on the Quidditch pitch, although I 
don't remember any desciption of the pitch suggesting that 
there is a Roman coliseum style stadium.

At any rate, I am wondering if GrandPre included arches 
on the cover of the last book for symbolic reasons, 
because they are on the cover of the first, the beginning 
and the end coming full circle, or something like that.

The UK children's cover also makes me think of Hogwarts:  
the armor, the golden cups and plates (which fill magically 
with food at the feasts in the Great Hall)  I am not sure 
the small gold objects are coins.  They could be the 
contents of the Hufflepuff hourglass, which has never 
been described AFAICR.  Arches, ruins, golden cups and 
plates, rubies--it all suggests some kind of destructive 
battle at Hogwarts to me.  The destruction of Hogwarts--
maybe that is what had Arthur Levine sobbing.