Here There Be Dragons
Jun. 8th, 2007 01:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jenny_wildcatDeathly Hallows deluxe cover art, ahoy!!
First, I thought "Wow, another dragon!", but then I thought to look at the background, especially the village below. It's very rural (note the farm fields on the left) and I think the pointy building on the bank of the river is a church. It isn't Hogsmeade, b/c there's no giant castle around. I think it's either Little Hangleton or Godric's Hollow.
The dragon seems pretty old. I'm guessing it's blind and the whiskers around it's face are grey. And it's wings are pretty worn, which could show some kind of age, unless the Trio was attacked along with the dragon (they don't look so great themselves).
I'm also wondering what kind of dragon this is (could it be Norbert? How fast do dragons age, anyway?) The HP Lexicon says that the Antipodean Opaleye's eye has no pupil and it's multicolored (look at the high-res and it could be), but that dragon is native to New Zealand and Australia. I don't think that the Trio is going that far away. Norwegian Ridgeback (aka Norbert) has horns, but they're supposed to be bronze and this one's back isn't spiky enough. Common Welsh Green? Well, this one's an earthy color and the info I have doesn't say anything about horns and such (of course, I wouldn't have "Fantastic Beasts" handy when I need it, now would I? - the Lexicon doesn't have all of FB on the site because Jo wrote it for charity and who would buy a reference book when all the info is free online?). The mystery continues...
What intrigues me (and makes me a little nervous at the same time) is that this dragon is probably very important to the story, being as it is on the cover (Arthur Levine's comment, notwithstanding) and I'm also anticipating Fawkes the Phoenix to be important as well. The reason this makes me nervous is that I'm in the process of writing a story that also places importance on phoenixes and dragons, thought the phoenix comes first and is of higher importance. Then again, a lot of stories use dragons and phoenixes, so I probably shouldn't worry.
And here I thought that all the exciting Deathly Hallows-related things had already happened and the next step would be July 21. Silly me.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
First, I thought "Wow, another dragon!", but then I thought to look at the background, especially the village below. It's very rural (note the farm fields on the left) and I think the pointy building on the bank of the river is a church. It isn't Hogsmeade, b/c there's no giant castle around. I think it's either Little Hangleton or Godric's Hollow.
The dragon seems pretty old. I'm guessing it's blind and the whiskers around it's face are grey. And it's wings are pretty worn, which could show some kind of age, unless the Trio was attacked along with the dragon (they don't look so great themselves).
I'm also wondering what kind of dragon this is (could it be Norbert? How fast do dragons age, anyway?) The HP Lexicon says that the Antipodean Opaleye's eye has no pupil and it's multicolored (look at the high-res and it could be), but that dragon is native to New Zealand and Australia. I don't think that the Trio is going that far away. Norwegian Ridgeback (aka Norbert) has horns, but they're supposed to be bronze and this one's back isn't spiky enough. Common Welsh Green? Well, this one's an earthy color and the info I have doesn't say anything about horns and such (of course, I wouldn't have "Fantastic Beasts" handy when I need it, now would I? - the Lexicon doesn't have all of FB on the site because Jo wrote it for charity and who would buy a reference book when all the info is free online?). The mystery continues...
What intrigues me (and makes me a little nervous at the same time) is that this dragon is probably very important to the story, being as it is on the cover (Arthur Levine's comment, notwithstanding) and I'm also anticipating Fawkes the Phoenix to be important as well. The reason this makes me nervous is that I'm in the process of writing a story that also places importance on phoenixes and dragons, thought the phoenix comes first and is of higher importance. Then again, a lot of stories use dragons and phoenixes, so I probably shouldn't worry.
And here I thought that all the exciting Deathly Hallows-related things had already happened and the next step would be July 21. Silly me.
Love from,
Jenny Wildcat
