The new cover for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was released the other day and I thought it was pretty interesting. The following will probably only be of interest to you if you’ve read the books.
WARNING: BOOK 5 SPOILERS BELOW! STOP READING IF YOU DON’T WANNA KNOW SOMETHING IMPORTANT FROM ORDER OF THE PHOENIX.
Here’s the new cover; I will discuss below the picture.
A coworker and I were discussing this picture and noticed several interesting things:
- It looked to us that they are in the place where Sirius (supposedly?) died (oh noes!) in Order of the Phoenix. The tiered rows of seats that were described seem like they would look like a kind of arena. The only thing that seems different is the sky, as I remember that arena being inside the Department of Mysteries underground somewhere…
- The shattered stuff in the foreground looks like it might be that archway that was in the middle of that arena that Sirius fell through.
- There was also a curtain around the archway in that scene, so I wonder if the curtains on the side of the images have anything to do with that.
The only question I have is who are Harry and Voldemort fighting together? Unless that’s not really Voldemort and is Snape or something, if Snape pulled an Emperor Palpatine. Then after he gets deformed by some force lightning he’ll be all, “Execute Order 66.” Then Darth Vader was all, “Noooooo”.
