The US Cover (WAS: Re: When all's read and done - spoilerish)

[Phyllis]

Yesterday

All these spoilers seemed so far away

Now it looks as though they're here to stay

Oh, I believe

In yesterday
 

::end of spoiler space::


<<Ginger:  I'm guessing that's at the part where he is catching LV's 
wand.  LV seems to be reaching for something with both hands, so I 
would assume it's his wand.>>

I reached the end of the US edition of DH (I am still waiting for 
Amazon.uk to deliver the real - also known as the Bloomsbury - 
edition) and realized that I still had no idea what the US cover art 
meant.  Ginger's idea of Harry reaching out to catch Voldy's wand 
makes sense, but in the picture, Harry is still wearing the locket 
horcrux, and doesn't have a wand in his other hand.  Moreover, while 
the sky is kinda red-gold (it's more a sickly shade of orange to me, 
actually), the rest of the backdrop doesn't look anything like the 
Great Hall - it's more Roman Colosseum.  And what's up with the 
curtains on either side and the jagged pieces of wood underfoot?

Phyllis
who wishes JKR could have had the artwork she so dearly deserved