Wednesday, March 28, 2007
posted by Chi-Chi at 3/28/2007 | Permalink
Final "Harry Potter" Book Cover
Though it won't hit stores until July 21, the cover of Harry Potter's swansong surfaced on Wednesday. Illustrator Mary GrandPre's artwork for the seventh and final book about J.K. Rowling's young wizard, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, features a dramatic gold-and-orange sky and the bespectacled teen hero reaching skyward. "The structures around Harry show evident destruction and in the shadows behind him, we see outlines of other people," David Saylor, art director for the publisher Scholastic, said in a statement, the Associated Press reports. "For the first time, the cover is a wraparound. On the back cover, spidery hands are outstretched toward Harry. Only when the book is opened does one see a powerful image of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, his glowing red eyes peering out from his hood," adds Saylor. Rowling's series has sold more than 325 million copies worldwide, and the first printing of Deathly Hallows will be 12 million in the U.S. alone. The cover for the children's edition from the UK's Bloomsbury Publishing PLC features a more mature Harry and his pals at Hogwarts: Hermione and Ron. The adult edition offers a photo of a locket bearing a serpentine "S" – believed to be the "horcrux" in which the evil Lord Voldemort keeps a fragment of his soul. [PEOPLE.COM] Visit [here] to view the children's cover of the final "Harry Potter"book.
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