The German ones are cracking me up.
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Sue - Aug 01, 2007 9:05:32 am PDT #2172 of 3301
hip deep in pie
JZ - Aug 01, 2007 9:12:23 am PDT #2173 of 3301
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Harry looks like a zombie on the Icelandic cover, IMO.
A bloated, pompous and faintly priggish zombie at that.
I still prefer the French covers to the UK children's covers. The UK covers make me feel all hot and blushy and embarrassed for the poor book trapped inside them.
Kat - Aug 01, 2007 9:24:52 am PDT #2174 of 3301
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
A bloated, pompous and faintly priggish zombie at that.
It looked like Dudley at first glance.
Sophia Brooks - Aug 01, 2007 9:34:16 am PDT #2175 of 3301
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
For some reason it reminds me of the schoolboys in the Spring Awakenings Musical [link]
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Connie Neil - Aug 01, 2007 9:51:46 am PDT #2176 of 3301
brillig
The graphic design traditions of different countries fascinate me. It's one reason I collect stamps, and many of Japan's stamps are so damned dull for a country with such gorgeous paintings.
meara - Aug 01, 2007 9:52:53 am PDT #2177 of 3301
The Ron on the French covers cracks me up. He looks so...French. All cheekboney and stuff. Doesn't look like Ron at all in my mind! (Harry, somehow still looks fairly OK to me, and Hermoine, though different, didn't make me laugh quite so much as Ron)
Kathy A - Aug 01, 2007 10:15:20 am PDT #2178 of 3301
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I'm reading a really good post-DH fic about Teddy Lupin's first year at Hogwarts, and the author just finished the end of the latest chapter at the boat dock at the school, with Teddy realizing for the first time how few students there are in his year (only fifteen), and the pureblood snooty girl asking him as if to say "well, duh..." "How many halfbloods do you think actually survived the year we were born?"
Something I didn't really think about until the author pointed it out--the off-screen deathcount in DH has got to be pretty high.
Dana - Aug 01, 2007 10:27:28 am PDT #2179 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
The German titles totally rule. The covers, not so much.
JZ - Aug 01, 2007 10:27:57 am PDT #2180 of 3301
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Oh, that's a beautiful small (sad and eerie) detail.
lisah - Aug 01, 2007 10:29:43 am PDT #2181 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate
Kathy, link please?