Carlsen, the publishers of the Harry Potter novels in Germany, have released the cover art for their adult editions of the seventh book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. You can view the cover art for this edition here in our Image Galleries.
Readers will recall cover art for the standard edition of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallowswas chosen via vote last month and can be seen right here.
Ok can I just say how much BETTER this cover art is than most of the foriegn stuff has been? My god.. didn’t you just want to die when you saw Germans children version? Bravo adult German version.. thanks for not drawing more crap.
I don’t really like it. It isn’t really subtle is it. It’s a bit wannabe-artsy.
If you would hang it in a museum, people would probably look at it with an all-knowing gaze, saying: hmmm… yes… very powerfull. blah!
It looks like any generic photo of a doe standing in a marshy area, a great photo but not specific to Harry Potter.
Also, splitting the cover with a doe photo on top and a Sword of Griffindor and a forest at night makes it look like they couldn’t make up their minds so they just spliced two closely related ideas together. If a doe photo had been part of the photo with the Sword and the Forest it would look like they knew where they were headed with the idea. This way it looks like they photoshopped it.
Let’s see, let’s find a doe; let’s find a forest; let’s find a moon and oh yeah, here is a picture of a guy’s hand holding a sword (not a jeweled sword with a ruby in the hilt but any old sword and the guy has on a brown tunic but we can make it black) and oh great, here’s a moon too.
In my opinion it was a quick, cheap job but looks a heck of a lot better than that awful children’s cover. I would rather carry around anything other than that children’s cover.
And Max, there is no difference in the content of the adult books vs. the regular. Some publishers just like to release an alternate “adult” cover because some adults might not like to be seen reading what looks like a children’s book.
All the German adult covers have the split with the two pictures. I actually prefer them to the British adult covers, though I don’t approve of adult covers in general (everyone knows you’re reading Harry Potter, so I don’t see what there is to be embarrassed about with having the same “kids” cover). The adult cover for OotP, though, does not look like a row of houses in London – San Francisco, maybe. You can see them all by following the link to the DH cover and then clicking on “Die Bucher” at the top of the page.
I think most of the Deathly Hallows covers so far have been pretty ugly, except for the US cover. This one just seems too random and pieced together, like they asked some 15 year old kid with PhotoShop to toss something together in a couple hours.
"You can pretend to be waiting for Professor
Flitwick, you know." He put on a high voice, "'Oh Professor Flitwick, I'm so worried, I think I got question fourteen [i]b[/i] wrong....'"[br]
"Oh, shut up," said Hermione.
So its The sword… With Ron holding it, on the cover.
Must say, its pretty awesome, as the Silver Doe is by far my fave chapter.