Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Cover Art

[tabular_rasa]

So the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows cover art is out.



The locket on the third cover is expected and makes me happy. Horcrux, duh. Slytherin's locket, duh. Regulus, woot.

I don't know how I feel about Voldemort actually being on the cover of the US edition. In a way, it's neat that he's on just the final book, etc . . . but I think that makes it silly for the future readers that they can see him on the seventh book when they're pulling Book 1 off the shelf for the first time. (Is it just me, or have the American covers gotten simpler and simpler? They used to have amusing little hints at all sorts of things all over them, not just a "scene.") The curtain motif seems to imply "beyond the veil"-- dun dun dun . . . That seems appropriate, and doesn't seem to go either way with which one of them ends up there (unless it's both O.o).

Obviously will have to wait and see what the cover of the UK edition is all about. Harry looks very mature in that picture (and Hermione and Ron look ridiculous O.o).

I like that the cover insert mentions the first book she ever wrote. The first book I ever wrote was about a white rabbit named White Bunny. I eventually turned it into a full-out series. I hope this proves auspicious for me, lol . . .



In other news, the campus mail server is down, and so I cannot print off my paper for Japanese Literature in one hour O.o . . . It's so small I probably could just write it again, but I've already written it (and just needed to go over it and maybe add something more), so I really don't want to . . .

Comments

[crazyaphrodite.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking that-- the US covers used to be like a collage of random tidbits of book stuff... I was really disappointed in looking at our cover because there's not much too it. Harry Vs. Voldemort, well duh. And the veil. You know, death. Duh. And the British cover is so... well, let's just say, I think I'd definitely be reading the Adult covered version over the other. lol

Ahhhhhhhh! HP!!!!!!!! Soooooooo pumped, and also really depressed. You might need to get me either some valium or some prozac by the time this is all overwith.

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

I never much cared for her artwork in general, so it's not a big loss . . . but I can tell she's even slipping from where she was at! Lol . . . the UK ones used to be okay, but this one's actually pretty ugly-- the people's faces are terrible.

I think I'm going to be depressed, too. Ahh well. If J.K. Rowling disappoints, it just proves she's human, and not The Goddess Of Accessible Fantasy Series. That's probably for the best.

It's like our passage into maturity, the disillusionment with the series: "The fantasy world must end, boys and girls; grow up and realize even the most perfect world cannot be so."

[just-you-wait.livejournal.com]

Ron has a sword!

Oh, and look what I found:

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha! That's awful! In the great way!

[tarmetiel.livejournal.com]

HEY, Im on the front flap....lol. Go James!

[tabular-rasa.livejournal.com]

^_^

I'm so disappointed by them in the movie flashback! No surprise there, though )-: