Inconsistent UK Adult Cover for DH

Aug 17, 2007 01:43

There's something inconsistent about the UK adult cover of the Deathly Hallows when compared to the covers of the earlier books in the series. Let me go through them one by one:


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syn_abounds August 16 2007, 17:51:37 UTC
Is it possible that previously the adult covers have come out AFTER the kid covers? or that the artists for the covers have known more about the plots of the books while designing the covers for them? Cos lord knows that the plot for DH was very closely guarded and tehy would have avoided telling as many people as possible what exactly the Deathly Hallows were and so they wouldn't be able to put them on the cover...

just speculation, of course...

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carlooos August 16 2007, 18:09:01 UTC

Hmm, yeah it could be the case that the plot was closely guarded.

Although I did read somewhere that for the fifth book, JKR gave specific instructions on how the UK covers should look, down to the last detail. So she could've done that as well for this one, just for the sake of being consistent.

But then again she has been inconsistent (like when she decided not to continue with the plot line of having someone perform magic later in life -- the kid who was supposed to enter Hogwarts without performing any kind of magic previously)

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gububba August 16 2007, 18:28:26 UTC

bridgetmalfoy August 17 2007, 01:50:05 UTC
this is quite intresting actually. i've never actually stopped to think about it. the locket is a horcrux not a hallow! it would of been nice if they put like the resserection stone on the cover.

well, i can kind of see why they put the locket on the cover instead of one of the three hallows, because it would look quite odd if you had a picture of a wand on the last book. the resserection stone is just a regular looking rock so that would look even more odd. and i think it would be quite difficult to put the invisiblity cloak on the cover of a book! :}

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slytherin_candi August 17 2007, 03:17:12 UTC
They should have had a pic of like an aging parchment with the symbol of the Hallows on it; the triangle with the circle and the line in it. Kinda like the chapter picture of the US version for chapter 21. Would've made more sense because we definitely wouldn't know what that was.

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syn_abounds August 17 2007, 07:00:18 UTC
What was fucking cool is that the ring was both a Hallow AND a horcrux and so really, they should have put THAT on the cover.

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dis_netis August 17 2007, 12:22:04 UTC
Definitely, thats what I was thinking as I read this. Then it would've connected both strands and we wouldn't be here complaining about inconsistancy!

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