Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix Book Covers

Which one is your favorite so far. Are they getting even better as the characters develop over time?

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Postby Holly Golightly » Sunday 27 April 2003 8:38:06am

Yeah, I know that the statue outside Dumbledore's office is a griffon, not a pheonix, but who's to say that the statue is of a pheonix? It does look remarkably like the statue outside the office in the movie after all..

And I know that the title is Order of the Pheonix, but from the books that I've got, none of the covers seem to be linked to the titles as such anyway...
No 1, has got the hogwarts express, not the philosophers stone on it,
No 2, the flying car, not the chamber of secrets,
No 3, Buckbeak with Harry and Hermione on it, not Sirus,
No 4, the Hungarian Horntail, not the Goblet of Fire...
So why do we think that the statue has to be a pheonix???
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Postby Sacred Guardian » Sunday 27 April 2003 4:03:52pm

look at what you said, you said it looks like the statue IN THE MOVIE, the movie has differed from the book many times, i wouln't be surprised if it did it again, and besides, it's a bird with fire around it (isn't it) what else could it be
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Postby RavenEye » Sunday 27 April 2003 4:40:51pm

Yeah that's right...

But I like the US cover better, looks more mysterious.
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Postby Neo » Monday 28 April 2003 2:07:49am

I think it is defenitely a Phoenix in the cover, and the book covers are linked to the books but doesn't reveal something directly, and having a Phoenix in the cover is a very good way of not giving too much clues.
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Postby Sacred Guardian » Monday 28 April 2003 10:16:27pm

yes it wouldn't give away much seeing as the name is
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
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Postby Neo » Tuesday 29 April 2003 5:08:14am

Well, yeah. But what if the phoenix was doing something special, in that case it will give more inforation that the title.
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Postby Holly Golightly » Tuesday 29 April 2003 9:18:39am

*smacks myself in the forehead*

I was thinking that the stuff at the bottom of the statue was mist... hrmmmm, sometimes, I'm not quite the brightest spark on the planet!!!

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Definition of phoenix

Postby joedeg3 » Tuesday 29 April 2003 8:22:11pm

Pronunciation: 'fE-niks

Function: noun

Etymology: Middle English fenix, from Old English, from Latin phoenix, from Greek phoinix

Date: before 12th century

Definition: a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period; also : a person or thing likened to the phoenix.

Taken from Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Postby Neo » Friday 2 May 2003 4:01:42am

What can we infer from that?
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Postby Sacred Guardian » Saturday 3 May 2003 2:07:02am

exactly what is says "a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period" which we already knew, but i think that in the book they don't live 500 years
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Postby Neo » Saturday 3 May 2003 7:30:02am

There is no way for us to know in this moment.
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Postby Blaise Zabini » Saturday 3 May 2003 8:46:23pm

Definitely like the US cover the best. I'm wondering what the doors and candles mean, though, seeing as how everything that's been on the covers has had an immense bearing on the topic of the book. Methinks the doors pertain to some secret in Harry's past.
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Postby Neo » Sunday 4 May 2003 2:22:42am

I think doors are more like a portal to for traveling in time, maybe this way Harry will return shortly to see his parents, and we will discover the thing about Lily.
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