Pointing out stories you may have missed. There is much to enjoy in the latest Harry Potter update by James Adams on the website of Canada’s national paper, `The Globe And Mail’.There are supposedly dead people, perhaps lots of dead people, in `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'. But clues as to who they are and how many are non-existent in the cover illustrations for the seventh and final volume of the phenomenally popular series that were released Wednesday by the novel's Canadian publisher.
As usual, Vancouver-based Raincoast Books is producing two cover images for this Potter, which lands in stores July 21. The first, for the so-called children's edition, is a full-colour extravaganza featuring a decidedly older-looking Potter, bruised and bleeding, desperately plunging through a golden brick archway into a field of treasure accompanied by his sidekicks Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. The second, for the adult market, is decidedly more subdued - a moody photograph of a medallion or locket emblazoned with what appears to be a highly stylised `S’
Of course, Potter maniacs will be poring over the images for portents as to what's ahead in J.K. Rowling's narrative.
Readers shouldn't try to tease too much significance from either image, both of which are also going to be featured on the British editions. Previous Potter covers have been not so much revelations as exercises in atmospherics. Indeed, as with the earlier books, the U.K. illustrators - Jason Cockcroft, who has two previous Potter kids' covers to his credit, and photographer Michael Wildsmith, who has done all the adult editions - weren't given a copy of the manuscript to read beforehand, just a smattering of suggestions and hints.
Jamie Broadhurst, Raincoast's marketing head, says the cover images contain elements that will make sense only after one has read the entire Deathly Hallows.
News source: TheGlobeAndMail.com.
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