Harry Potter and The Order of The Phoenix Book Covers

[Holly Golightly]

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???

[Sacred Guardian]

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

[RavenEye]

Yeah that's right...

But I like the US cover better, looks more mysterious.

[Neo]

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.

[Sacred Guardian]

yes it wouldn't give away much seeing as the name is
HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX

[Neo]

Well, yeah. But what if the phoenix was doing something special, in that case it will give more inforation that the title.

[Holly Golightly]

*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!!!

[joedeg3]

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.

[Neo]

What can we infer from that?

[Sacred Guardian]

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

[Neo]

There is no way for us to know in this moment.

[Blaise Zabini]

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.

[Neo]

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.