Cover for final Harry Potter book uncloaked
Rushda:
March 28th, 2007
The much awaited seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series, named Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows has now got a cover to go with the mysterious name. The newly revealed colourful cover for the children’s version shows Harry and his friends lunging over a pile of treasure, while the adult version of the book shows a pendant engraved with a jewelled ‘S’ shape. The text on the cover says unrevealing things like, “Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task”. Almost annoying in how little it gives away but oh well, that’s the fun of it I guess, and I’m sure the new cryptic cover will give diehard fans so much more speculate about. The wait is indeed becoming more and more tense as everyone is impatient to read the ultimate fate of their favourite wizard. The book is to be released on 21st July this year and like millions of others, I look forward to it!
March 30th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
[…] Following my recent blog about the new cover for Harry Potter, I was reminded of the strange concept of producing adult versions of books designed for younger readers. I really can’t understand why there are so many adults who want to buy ‘grown-up’ versions and publishers cater for them by producing more mature looking covers. Given that the adult covers rarely look very exciting (for that would defeat the object it seems) the reason behind buying them must be motivated sinply by embarrassment in reading what obviously looks like a children’s book. Can’t they see that there is absolutely nothing wrong in being able to enjoy children’s books? Surely if a story is good it doesn’t matter who it is designed for. Why care so much about what people will think when they see you at a bus-stop or on the train reading one of nation’s obvious favourite books? To be honest, people who do this should be more embarrassed about reading the adult version as all it shows is a kind of pretentiousness that should not go with the pleasure of reading something simple like Harry Potter. […]