The Cover Revealed!

[youknowwho]

The cover of the 7th book has been revealed!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_en_ot/books_potter_cover

Aperently it will be a "wrap-around" cover and will feature an image of voldemort on part of it.

What I'm wondering about is the signifigance of the ached structure in the backround is.

[DucksRMagical]

Aw, I was just about to post this, ykw!

Here's the article.

New Harry Potter book cover revealed

Wed Mar 28, 5:23 PM ET

NEW YORK - What picture shows a dramatic gold and orange sky and a teenage boy in glasses reaching upward?
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It's the cover to the seventh and final
Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," coming out July 21. As always, the cover was designed by illustrator Mary GrandPre, U.S. publisher Scholastic, Inc., announced Wednesday.

"The structures around Harry show evident destruction and in the shadows behind him, we see outlines of other people," David Saylor, Scholastic's art director, said in a statement.

"For the first time, the cover is a wraparound. On the back cover spidery hands are outstretched toward Harry. Only when the book is opened does one see a powerful image of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, his glowing red eyes peering out from his hood."

J.K. Rowling's fantasy series has sold more than 325 million copies worldwide. "Deathly Hallows" has an announced first printing of 12 million in the United States alone.

The cover for the children's edition released by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, Rowling's British publisher, shows an adult-looking Harry, Hermione and Ron. The adult edition has a photograph of a locket bearing a serpentine "S" — believed to be the "horcrux" in which Lord Voldemort keeps a fragment of his soul.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070328/ap_ ... tter_cover


This is the U.S. publisher's cover, so I'm not sure if the British one will be different or not.

[Simatra]

Sweet, I wish they's give a picture with the inside! It's almost HERE! I can't believe it!

[Scellanis]

The full American cover is

http://www.bordersmedia.com/harrypotter/spread.asp

[Q.Araignee]

The UK version is really different- no Voldemort and beyond an archway with the trio and what I think is Godric's sword. And the Hallows may very well be at Hogwarts, and...Oh there's so many possibilities shown!

http://www.bloomsbury.com/media/hp7childrens_high_complete.jpg

It may take quite a while to load, it's just a little bit big...

Anyone want to discuss the implications of these covers? Please? Pretty please with free cake/chocolate/chocolate cake?

[FawkesthePhoenix]

*starts hyperventilating* oh my gosh, oh my gosh, i can't beleive it's almost here. after all this waiting it's almost here. oh my gosh. i don't think i can contain all this excitment. *starts shaking* oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh....... i think i'm gonna go crazy. i wanna read it now!

[Eol]

On the front cover of the UK version I agree with Q.Araignee that harry's holding Godric's sword. There's also a helmet with a dragon sitting on top and chest armour with a bird on it (Possibly ravenclaw's!). Exciting stuff. The back cover is definitely Hogwarts.

The American version looks more compelling. It seems like a lot of people are watching Harry and Voldemort, who are both wandless incidently. Must be the deathly hallows, which looks a lot like a coliseum. Can't wait now. Gonna be part of the queue at midnight.

[youknowwho]

Actualy it would seem that Doby is holding Gryfindor's sword, which probobly means that he plays a big roll in this book.

On the American cover it looks as if both Harry and Voldemort are reaching out for something, perhaps a wand since niether of them have one. The figures in the back are probobly the deathly hallows which I think are people who voldemort has killed.

[Eol]

Great spot, i didn't even notice the mysterious elf behind Harry

[Snow_Crystal]

but is it an elf - to me it looked like what I had imagined Inferi to look like... I can't wait - there's only 112 days to go before the book gets here!

[Q.Araignee]

I think it is a House Elf- Dobby most likely. From the looks of it, they've been in the wars a bit- the various cuts and scrapes do suggest so.

I'm not sure about the motif on the armour- it looks kind of serpentine or lizardy to me, but maybe that's just because I can't see any wings. After all, the OotP Phoenix design had a long neck. Also, the dragon helm seems to be studded with the same kind of rubies as Godric's sword- are they a part of a full set, possibly including the breastplate shown?

The general presence of treasure intrigues me too- gold, jewels, jewelled decanters, jewelled breastplate/helmet/shield, chalice(s), platter(s), vase(s)...burial place of the Founders? Long forgotten treasure vault?

Oh, and Prongs on the front cover flap- more infromation about James and Lily...

[Simatra]

with the USA cover, that makes you think that they are going back to the department of mysteries, because there's that veil and in that room it's supposed to look collisemumish.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

Seems to me like it's Dobby holding the sword. It could of course be something like a goblin, considering they are around lots of treasure.

Funny, I didn't even see it until I viewed the close-up of the image.

But I would say it's certainly Dobby, because Harry wouldn't let any other elf carry Gryffindor's sword, assuming that it is the sword in question...

[Eol]

That would be quite a twist, if Godric and co kept all his worldly possessions in a Gringotts vault How pragmatic of him.

It must be a place where one of the horcruxes is kept. We all know that Voldemort likes to collects talismans, this could be a store of them.

[Phoenix in the Ashes]

That's a great thought - that that vault in Gringotts might actually be Voldemort's... he would have had to have one some time, perhaps he just kept it from when he was younger, and put a few special things in there.

Maybe just one of them is a horcrux... somewhere in there.