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Departments => Books => Topic started by: Oldie Black Witch on March 09, 2005, 10:30:27 PM
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Scholastic and Bloomsbury released the covers for the book yesterday:
The American Cover (http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=harrypotter6_HR.jpg)
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The UK Children's Cover (http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=hbpchild.jpg)
So, any predictions?
From the covers, I'd guess that Dumbledore is going to be taking a more active roll in Harry's life in this next book.
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It does seem as though Dumbledore is going to be more actively involved in Harry's life.
Course, the covers could be a trick. It could really be someone posing as Dumbledore.
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Maybe Dumbledore is the HBP?
I love that there is purple on the US cover. It's my favorite color.
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maybe dumbledore is really He Who Must Not Be Named!
on a subject change, I'm growing more disenchanted with the movies. Azkaban took too much out to make it fit (I just barely saw it a few nights ago)
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Really? I thought Azkaban was the best of the three so far. The other ones tried to cram too much in, and the acting was terrible.
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There were just too many elements that they hinted at but ultimately left out the meaning of. Like the Patronus.
I didn't think the acting was terrible. My only problem is that Hermione is too cute (in the little kid way) to be Hermione.
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I loved the Azkaban movie.
Anyway, interesting how much older Harry looks on the british cover. Doesn't seem to have aged much on the US one.
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Those covers are rather ugly to my eyes. Very garish and WOOW LOOK AN EXPLOSION.
Be interested to see if there is a 'UK adults' cover. I remember a comment by Ian Irvine, who said that to Brits and Aussies having characters on the cover looks twee and quaint, while to americans it looks dynamic.
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The UK cover is awful. It looks like a highschool student did it.
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I really like the style of the US cover, though I agree that the older-lookingn Harry on the UK cover would be better. Other than that, though, the UK cover in general looks pretty dumb.
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I still don't see the whole deal with these books. They are ok at best in my view. Also did anyone see the Saturday Night Live spoof on Harry Potter and they had Lindsy Lopan playing Hermione?
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I think the books are great with a lot of character and good pacing. As for the movies, though it has the most edited out when compared to the books, Prisoner of Azkaban is clearly the best of the three so far.
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There is a UK adult cover, but I didn't post it. It's very understated. It is a picture of "Advanced Potion-Making" sitting on a table.
Here. (http://www.mugglenet.com/viewer/?image_location=hbpadult.jpg)
Usually they release the flap and back cover blurbs before the book is released, but Scholastic and Bloomsbury announced today that they won't release them until the publish date because they reveal major plot points.
The Scholastic editor (Arthur Levine) and JK Rowling have been slowly trickling out tidbits.
Fudge is so fired. There will be a new Minister of Magic.
Harry has to come to terms with Sirius' death before he will be of any use.
Harry's stay at Privet Drive will be the shortest so far, and he'll be leaving for a happy reason.
And from the UK adult cover, Harry passed his Potions O.W.L. and won't be leaving Snape's class anytime soon.
Just a guess: Harry receives the Order of Merlin and that's why he'll be leaving the Dursley's so soon.
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I am looking foward to this book. Hmm, ahem, not as much as EUOL's book mind you, but still really looking forward to it. I bought my son the first four books on his first christmas when he was barely 2 months old, and the wife and I read him the entire series. It will be nice to carry on with it for him, and now my daughter.
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I've decided to wait a couple more years before reading it to my kids. Actually, I think what's going to happen is I'll keep filching my sister-in-law's copy and reading that. When the 7th comes out and there's a hardcove box set, I'll buy them all and start reading to my oldest.
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How old is your oldest?
The books are kind of designed to have a reading learning curve. Basicly, by starting with the first one and then reading each of the following, they help kids improve their reading skills. Hence the first book is at a 2nd or 3rd grade reading level. The second book is 3rd or 4th grade, ect... Course many kids just read all of them and gain the benefits of being better readers earlier.
My 8-year old niece has started reading the 3rd book. My 10 year old niece has read all of them. My 13 year old nephew has read all of them 2 or 3 times.
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she's 5. She's also got the delicate psychic constitution inherited from her mother. I think she can handle most of what goes on, and in a couple years she'll be able to handle all of it.
Plus I think she needs to develop some attention span first.
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Whoa. Now, that adult cover is perhaps the most telling. Looks like Dumbledore is going to be teaching Harry advanced potion making. (Not Snape?) They're definitely doing something potiony on both the kids' covers, but what everyone was noticing was that Dumbledore was giving Harry individual attention, not that potions were going to play a key role in the book.
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Actually, on the US cover it looks like both Harry and Dumbledore are looking into the Pensieve. The bowl is too flat to be a cauldron, and the Pensieve is described as "cracked," just like the bowl on the cover. So I doubt that Dumbledore will be teaching Harry any potionmaking. But I fully agree that Dumbledore will be giving Harry more personal attention in HBP.
I've been reading the series aloud to my 6-year-old son for a while now. We're about five or six chapters into Goblet of Fire, and more often than not, he doesn't really listen to what I read. It's more of a bonding thing than feeding his interest in the series. Besides, it gives me the chance to read the books again.
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My 7 year old just finished book 5. ;D
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And now that we've established the meaning of the word "bludge," we can call Voldemort a "real son of a bludger"with impunity.
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Scholastic has allready printed about 10 million copies of the book.
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Barbara Marcus, president of Children's Book Publishing at Scholastic -- author J.K. Rowling's U.S. publisher -- said 10.8 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" had been printed.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050605/en_nm/arts_potter_dc;_ylt=Aj0cZ0RFiFMsi05FNbpemuus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2OXY1b2VrBHNlYwNlbg--
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The picture in the article is misleading. It makes it seem like those are people fighting over a copy of the "stolen" book released in Britain. But when I looked closer at a bigger version of the photo, I could make out that the book was the American cover for Order of the Phoenix.
I wouldn't want a stolen copy anyways. I want the real thing. I like Marie Grand Pre's art on the American covers. So now I'm starting to get really excited for this to come out!
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HBP like the rest of JK Rowlings books has just the right amount of suspence to keep you wanting to turn the pages. Her past 3 books 1 good character has died, starting with Cedric Diggory to (skip this part those of you who have not read the book) coughDumbledorecough (it is now safe to read again :) ) HBP was as good as her other books, read if you have not read!