NEW YORK - What picture shows a dramatic gold and orange sky and a teenage
boy in glasses reaching upward?
This image supplied by Scholastic on Wednesday March 28,
2007, shows the cover of the US edition of the highly anticipated 'Harry
Potter and the Deathly Hallows, 'J.K. Rowling?s seventh and final Harry
Potter book due in stores just after midnight on July 21, 2007. [AP]
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It's the cover to the seventh
and final Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows," coming out
July 21. As always, the cover was designed by illustrator Mary GrandPre, US
publisher Scholastic, Inc., announced Wednesday.
"The structures around Harry show evident destruction and in the shadows
behind him, we see outlines of other people," David Saylor, Scholastic's art
director, said in a statement.
"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."
J.K. Rowling's fantasy series has sold more than 325 million copies
worldwide. "Deathly Hallows" has an announced first printing of 12 million in
the United States alone.
The cover for the children's edition released by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC,
Rowling's British publisher, shows an adult-looking Harry, Hermione and Ron. The
adult edition has a photograph of a locket bearing a serpentine "S" ¡ª believed
to be the "horcrux" in which Lord Voldemort keeps a fragment of his
soul.