COVER ART! We have cover art!

[Nahtan]

www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/gallery/dh

Cover art! Yay! The covers of DH have been released. I like the UK version best, I am sure thats what we get here, so yay!

[Nahtan]

If you look on the UK spine you see a symbol up the top? Know what its for? Or the one on the Adult version?

Oh and there is a blurb and a quote from the book...

[absolut]

I'm guessing that locket is an important part of the story then, seeing as it's on the cover, much like the spell book was on the cover of HBP. It's the horcrux, slytherins... hmmm...i need more info dammit:(

[Jennifer]

I dunno, the colors used for the US version seem all bright and cheery to me, so maybe it's a good ending. Like Harry defeats Voldemort and Harry doesn't die.

[Pink]

Oooh interesting! I hate to say it but I hadn't been getting overly excited about the final book, yeah I can't wait for it but I've not really been feeling that insatiable need to know what's going to happen - this helps though!!!

Is that Godric's sword on the front, and is it significant that Ron has it and not Harry?

Is that a house elf on Harry's back? Kreacher?

Why does Hermione have a facial expression like some inflatable sex doll?

The locket on the adult vershie hints at lots of Slytheriny goodness, though I guess that's the one that was in Grimmauld Place that none of them could open and has now most likely been flogged by Mundungus.

Prongs seems to be making another appearance, does this mean dementors are playing a significant part?

I also guess that's Hogwarts on the back so seemingly we will go back there at some point even tho the trio have left. There's a full moon too so maybe there's a werewolf battle at Hogwarts? Go Remus!

What's with the snake in the crystal ball?

What does the symbol on the spine mean?

And what's with all the treasure?

As for the American version, it gives us less clues but seems weird that Harry and Voldie are facing the same way, it's not very conflictual (if that's a word!). Harry looks quite relaxed eve. Harry also appears to be wearing the locket on the front of the Adult vershie so that does suggest it's a key part of the plot. Also, are Harry and Voldie both doing wandless magic, would make sense given their wands don't work against the other.

I can't work out whether they're standing in between some kind of viaduct or an ampitheatre. Looks too curvy to be a viaduct but doesn't look ampitheatrey enough to be an ampitheatre! And are the shadows by the arches people? And what's with the curtains and bits of broken wood?

So many questions, gah!

[Nahtan]

Is that Godric's sword on the front, and is it significant that Ron has it and not Harry?

I think its actually the house elf holding the sword, if you look at the fingers, they look like the ones on harry's sholder.

What's with the snake in the crystal ball?

This may be going a little far, but maybe its the basalisk (sp?) from CoS? If so, maybe voldy will be using it?

Anyone notice Harry has a gash on his arm in the UK version?

Why is hermoine in PJ looking clothing?

[Nahtan]

TLC copies and pastes

ETA: The UK edition looks like they're at Gringotts- there's lots of jewels and the creature on Harry's back could be a goblin. What do you think? Could they be horcrux-hunting in a deep, hidden vault somewhere?

It seems to me like they are fighting in the amphitheatre of the MoM where the veil is (in the Scholastic version, of course). Although it is seemingly in open air I think it is very much reminiscent of that room.

Seems like tossing Voldy through the veil may be a good way to off him without directly killing him via AK.

I thought the figures behind Harry in the American edition were people, but my mom said she thought they looked like tombstones. My first thought was definitely the MoM. It could be the Veil room, the room Harry's hearing was in or maybe the Love room? The thing around his neck looks more like a pouch than the locket, though I suppose the locket could be inside. Did you guys see the Adult version, which is most certainly the locket?

The archways in the background. Are they exits from many viels type ways? Could this be a room that maybe sirius is in?

[Nahtan]

Yet again, from TLC forum:

I hope this clears everything up for everyone!!!!!!!!


JK Rowling stopped the movies writers from using the Grave Yard in hogwarts school, DUE TO THE FACT THAT IT WAS SO IMPORTANT IN BOOK 7.

What looks like a coloseum is just the bridge connecting hogwarts school (The on which the train goes over). Thats all. Sorry.

They are at Hogwarts.

She has said, as have I, for the past weeks how important the veil is, MOREOVER, how important it is on HALLOWEEN, or ALL HALLOWS EVE.

JK uses celtic Mythiology in here books. Due to the fact the modern understanding of witches and wizards stem from british folk law. This can been seen if you look at the trees which go with each month.

The celts had a different type of wood for each month, so, Hermionies wand is made of the same wood as the tree for the month to which she is born, so, is rons, and so is Harry's.

There for; The celts believe that:

("holy" or "holy night") the Oct. 31 Greater Sabbat, also called November Eve, the Celtic Samhain ("sow-en"); the beginning of the Celtic winter, and of the Celtic year; the beginning of the Witches' Year, when the Veil Between the Worlds grows thin and the spirits of the dead may return to Earth; the Descent of the Goddess to the Underworld; the final Harvest festival.

Will he speak to Sirius....Yes JK has said so. She also said he will go in the locked room.

I believe the question we should ask is, will he speak to the forfounders??

I also agree that they will have to go to gringots. Now, Everthing looks like it is Griffindors, Maybe he will speak to him? Who knows, well, apart from JK, her editors, Jim Dale possable, etc.

Have fun!

[Elise]

In the Uk Childrens edition it looks like wherever they're falling into is hot or something red and bright as they are all redfaced and the reflection in harrys glasses looks red like fire, maybe theres a drogon or something? The armour that they're all on top of is silver - slytherin? as i would have evpected Gryfindorr to be gold it also looks like on the chest piece theres some sort of serpent or.. flamingo?

The serpent in the crystal ballIn the Uk Children’s edition it looks like wherever they're falling into is hot or something red and bright as they are all red-faced and the reflection in Harry’s glasses looks red like fire, maybe there’s a dragon or something? The armour that they're all on top of is silver - Slytherin? As I would have expected Gryffindor to be gold it also looks like on the chest piece there some sort of serpent or... Flamingo? It also looks scaly?

Ron and Hermione look as if they are in formal sort of robes... well posh anyway.

They all look like they are surprised as to be in there as if they have fallen in accidentally or as they weren’t sure as to what was in the vault.

The house elf or goblin? Why is it holding the sword – helping Harry or forcing them to go in there... surely three fully grown wizards would be able to outwit a house-elf//goblin?

All Harry, Hermione & Ron are looking in different directions and are still terrified? Maybe many things to be terrified of or just one enormous thing.

The serpent in the crystal ball maybe Trelawney makes another actual prediction?

Why does Hogwarts look like it’s frozen at the bottom? I didn’t think that Harry was returning to Hogwarts? Why is the door open?

Full Moon – Fenrir Greyback - Something devious maybe? What about Lupin and Bill!

Prongs? – Not too sure but it looks solid as if it’s made of ice or something? And it looks like he is smiling…

What is the symbol on the spine?

Uk adult edition – Is it the real or the fake? It looks metal so maybe the real? Is it important that it has been placed on stone?

The US edition – Harry looks like he is trying to catch something? While Voldemort looks like he is trying to summon it using magic? Maybe Harry’s Quidditch skills will come in useful?

It looks like a coliseum or an arena? It looks circular... too circular for a bridge? Also what are the curtain and the wood about? The ‘veil’ in the MoM was on stone wasn’t it?

I think it is definitely people in the background as they look like they have shoulders? Maybe not human could be spirits?

These are just rough notes but I thought I would share them with you all =]

I’m so excited!

[Pink]

Just a quickie as pizza will be here in a mo but my first thought about the shadows on the US edition were that they were tombstones but it seemed an unusual layout for a graveyard, all circular and whatnot.

And as for the 'curtains' - the veil makes sense! Though from memory isn't there fabric on either side? That's what made me think of like theatre curtains.

I'll digest the info Nathan posted from TLC in a bit as now all I can think of is fooooood XD

[Sweet]

I'm starting to get very, very excited now and feeling quite sad as it's the last one

US Cover - To me, it looks like Harry and Voldie seem to be looking as the same thing...which seems weird. Also, that structure in the background doesn't look like a bridge at all to me either...then again, maybe it is. I don't know...but the curtains sure to give me the impression of a threatre. And I wonder why Harry would keep something in a bag thing around his neck?

UK Cover - I must say, they all look absolutly petrified. That creature on Harry's back looks very much like a house-elf to me...well, from what little I can see it does, anyway. I wonder why the creature is holding a sword though? The jewels and money, like Nathan said...makes me automatically think of Gringotts. And why does it look like Hermione and Harry are falling forward, but Ron is falling back? Maybe it doesn't mean anything...it just seems strange to me. As for the back cover...I really don't know what to think of it...I mean, I reakon that the full moon probably has some significance...and the smoke/clouds...I'm just at a complete loos about everything else.

UK Adult - Very simple, which is weird to JK. Definatly something to do with Slytherin...maybe thats what Harry has in the bad around his neck on the US Version? Perhaps that may have something to do with the Sorting Hat trying to put him in Slytherin in his first year? Maybe Harry can find out that it has some sort of uber power or something? I don't know, I am absolutly stumped.

Well, thats my input for now...may take another good, hard look at the covers, but I'm way too tired right now...and I apologise if I waffled pointlessly at all during this post, I tend to do that alot when I'm tired.

[Nahtan]

Hermoine has been petrafied by the basilisk that voldie sent out and thats why she looks like a blow up doll!

[Sweet]

lol - I was going to write something rather rude in reply to that, but decided against it.

Nathan - Harry killed with Basilisk in CoS...so I doubt Voldie has got that again. Unless he's been secretly breeding a new one...but I think thats highly unlikely. You never know, though

[Nahtan]

But death is such an odd thing in these books. Voldie has lots of lifes, maybe the snake does as well?

[Sweet]

You do have a point. We never can really tell, can we? You are right though, death is a very odd thing in the books. There is a few possibilities of why she could be looking like that - I guess we'll just have to wait and see.