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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You're right! I think it has to be Albania. It looks just like the Lexicon pictures.
Christi, I'm pretty sure Romania (and prob. Albania as well) has loads of geography similar to this (old national geographic mags...). I kind of assoc. that part of the world with (still today) having isolated areas with ancient customs; gypsy country, if you will...
OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!11 DRAAGGGOONNNNNNN!!!
CHARLIE WEASLEY!
CLOTHES IN TATTERS - WHYWHYWHY?!
(thisiswhytheylockmeuplolxD)
I am OH SO EXCITED :D :D :D
Yeah, but Norbert never showed any real affection toward the trio. In fact he burned Ron remember, and they were so sick of him by the end. I don't see even Norbert allowing them to ride him. That's what's so odd about it. I can't see any dragon just allowing them to ride it unless they were able to find some sort of spell to control it. Even the dragon controllers had to go through a lot of trouble in the 4th book.
I thought KRUM and BULGARIA! Off to check the description in the Lexicon...
You know, I would really like this copy, but apparently Borders can't take orders for it anymore.
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isn't Harry wearing a strange sort of jacket? like with golden feathers or something...
...just wondering!I'm sooo excited! ;)
BTW...i really really want a chapter title revealed or something!!! :D:D:D
Alba, I thought it might be dragon hide, but it could also be feathers or fur, I suppose ... *wonders*
Since dragons are too dangerous to ride, it makes sense that it is an animagus.
Not Norbert! Norbert (according to Ron) was a Norwegian Ridgeback, this is clearly an old Opaleye. I like the Alberforth animagus idea which ties in nicely with his supposed goat prefference. In addition, obviously mountanous terrain, could be albania/Rumania/ Scotland. Also appears to be a castle by the river (under the dragon's shin. Maybe a giant on left next to field
It looks more like Austria to me, because the mountains are bit steep for Albania. Couldn't say what Rumania looks like. It looks like the trio and dragon have been attacked and slashed, but also as if they are on the lookout for another attack.
Why does it have to take soooo long?
But with all the hints and secrecy I still gather that Jo Rowling has doen it again and written a lovely complex plot!
OH MY GOD. They're flying on a DRAGON!? Is it Norbert!? Dragons aren't tame! More messed up clothes! I'm glad they said it's Hermione because it doesn't really look like her, and I bet there would have been lots of arguments about it. I can't wait for this book to come out!
I think someone on the forums has guessed the Dragon's type:
There is only one dragon that is not dangerous to humans and that have no pupils:
The Antipodean Opaleye is considered by wizards worldwide to be one of the most beautiful species of dragon. They are found in New Zealand but are known to migrate to Australia when territory is scarce. It weighs between two and three tons and its flames are bright scarlet. Described as having iridescent, pearly scales and multi-coloured pupil-less eyes, the Opaleye never kills humans, its favourite food being sheep. Its eggs are pale grey and may be mistaken for fossils by Muggles. A series of kangaroo killings in the 1970s were attributed to a male Opaleye ousted by a dominant female.
Well...Jo did say Harry was going to get a new pet;) I wonder if this dragon is it???
It's gotta be Norbert.
*Rushes off to find Dragon Lover.*
