Today Show Reveals "Deathly Hallows" Deluxe Edition Cover Art
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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The Deluxe Edition Cover Art for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows US edition is right here!
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This morning NBC's Today Show featured a first look at the cover of the Special Deluxe Edition Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. According to the official Today show blog, this edition with a print run of 100,000 copies, will retail for $65 and contain 816 pages. Arthur Levine, US editor of the Harry Potter books, is noted in the article as saying that the Special Edition cover art is from one of his favorite scenes in the book, and was an image he specifically asked to be featured on the Deluxe cover. Scholastic Vice President and Creative Director, David Saylor describes the scene as:
“Set during a highly dramatic sunset, Harry, Hermione, and Ron--clothes in tatters--cling atop a flying dragon in this astonishing artwork created by Mary GrandPré for the deluxe edition. As mist creeps down towering hillsides to a village below, questions arise about where the trio is headed and what has led them to this spellbinding moment."
Update: The Harry Potter Scholastic website now features the Deluxe Edition cover art as well as the option to explore, up close, this amazing new cover.
We also now have available the high res images of this new cover as well as the Deluxe Edition packaging!
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Deluxe Cover Art
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Deluxe Cover Box
More news is coming in on this cover, we will update shortly.
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There look like there are mountains in the background scene. Do we know if Albania or Romania have mountains? This might help us narrow down where they might be. Unfortunately, I'm not that familiar up on Europe mountain geography.
I deplore the fact that the trio is depicted as children and not as teenagers. Very irritating.
I suspect, as well, that the dragon is Norbert and that they are somewhere in Central Europe, if we look at the color of the tiles on the roofs of the houses.
So we now know that they travel out of the British Isles. How interesting!
Those houses do not look British. They look more like the housing in the Alps. So are they flying from where Charlie works in Romania.
Now that I can breathe..what is Harry wearing? It doesn't look like regular fabric; I don't know what it is! And what is that black thing behind Hermione?
Dragons tend to age reather slowly, hence why they live for several millenia. Norbert would only be 7 yrs old...
Could the Dragon be an Animagus of someone?
Aberforth Dumbledore perhaps?
It looks like an Antipodean Opaleye (Fantastic Beasts pg 11) a less aggressive dragon, which is native to the valleys New Zealand but is sometimes found in Australia. Could they be Down Under?
Jessie, I think that's Hermione's clothes flying in the wind
the question is why are they on a dragon??
Harry love Ginny TOO MUCH to let her come along. But Ginny is a strong girl, and if she wants to do something she is going to do it. I will be intresting to see how he convinced her to stay. Maybe she did come along and is not shown in this sceen. I still think that Ron and Herimone are the ones who are going to die.
OMG. This is making me cry. Probably from nerves. And my connection with dragons. OMG!!!
Oh. My. God.
Good thing I reserved the Deluze Edition months ago, this is too good.
I think the dragon is Norbert, and that the're flying over Godric's Hollow. Anyone?
Is Norbert a hornbill(?) dragon? because this one definitely is. Also all three look to be hurt/have scratches. Both Hermione's and Ron's robes are in tatters. The dragon's wings are also tattered. Also if you notice that just like on the UK kids book cover, Harry is the only one not wearing a robe. Also Hermione is laying with her legs extended while both Ron and Harry are straddling the dragon, which portends that Hermione has suffered another injury. The sky and the river are sharing that same orange color from the other book covers so maybe they are headed to that final showdown. Though, in the regular US book cover Harry is wearing the same robe as Voldemort, possesses a locket (real or fake), and is unscathed (unhurt)so perhaps they are just escaping- maybe a showdown at the wedding (I doubt it because of the dragon (unless Charley borught back one) or at Hogwarts, which Harry said he would not be going back to (which might explain why he's not wearing a robe). As for location, I have no idea but it's some place mountainous/or filled with hills- whatever those are. Interesting fact is that Harry is still wearing the green shirt on the deluxe US cover that he's wearing on the regular one so this has to be the same day.
This cover is so confusing (and disappointing, because I don't really want a dragon, lol)
How would they even ride a dragon in the first place, when we know how dangerous they are. Unless the dragon is tame (maybe one of Charlie's pets??) or if they learn an animal-controlling spell, or if it's not a true dragon and is an animagus or a part-dragon.
Maybe Harry is reaching up toward the dragon on the other US cover, and Voldemort is blocking himself from the dragon?
I really hope the dragon isn't a huge part of the story... Eragon is the dragon fantasy book of today, not HP...
