'Deathly Hallows' cover art released!
Scholastic and Bloomsbury today both revealed the covers for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows!

- United States Children's Edition - view here
- United Kingdom Children's Edition - view here
- United Kingdom Adult Edition - view here

You can also view a high-res version of the entire US jacket HERE.

Bloomsbury also announced today that the UK edition will be 608 pages long. As previously announced, the US version of the book will have 784 pages, making it longer than GOF. However, the UK page count makes DH shorter than the British GOF (which is 636 pages long). We presume this is due to an increased font size for the US version.

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UPDATE: Arthur Levine, the US Potter editor, spoke this morning on the TODAY show about the American cover:

"We're seeing Harry in a very interesting situation. Readers will find out exactly what the situation is.

"When I was reading it, I had both the excitement and the power of the book, and the plot, driving me forward. But I was also feeling a little sad. It's the last time."

When Levine admitted he "sobbed and sobbed" while reading Deathly Hallows, he was asked the following:

"That means someone we like dies, doesn't it?"

"Well, it means it is a very, very emotional book," he responded.
Posted by Andrew on Mar 28th | 1354 Comments
Visitor Comments
Posted by Mollie8391 Mar 28th 2007

Oh yes, and has anyone noticed that in the UK cover, Ron is holding a sword [[which I would believe to be Godric Gryffindor's]]? And how both the US and UK-children's covers are Primarily warm tones [[red, gold, orange, yellow etc]]? And Harry's nearly-invisible [[possibly non-exsistant]] scar and the pouch [[well, I think it's a pouch]] around his neck on the US versions are highly unusual... And what on EARTH are Ron and Hermione wearing in the UK cover? haha It's just strange seeing them outside of their Hogwart's Clothes... so I guess we can agree that they do not return to Hogwarts? And if they don't, why is there a castle on the back of the UK cover? Could there be a castle besides Hogwarts to which Harry, Ron and Hermione would venture off to? OH SO MANY PUZZLING QUESTIONS!


Posted by snapeward777 Mar 28th 2007

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Posted by brightredbucket Mar 28th 2007

i_loverz_HP, BaybeeBethy and crazy20yzarc06. Thanks =] I was just being and idiot and not reading properly. it's all that excitement ... :P


Posted by tkoko Mar 28th 2007

Amazing!!!!! But what does the Stump in the Bottom right corner mean?


Posted by Fa_Fa_Fa Mar 28th 2007

Oh.........my............ ....god........8| im soooo excited but then upset that its only 608 pages, well its a lot, but itll go sooo quickly. :( but im still EXCITED!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D this is prob my fave cover :)


Posted by i_loverz_HP Mar 28th 2007

maybe they all have to go back to howgrats cuz like a clue is there or something but i dont get why there is a fire/smoke in the forest... i like the orange it kinda represents like the end of a day the end of a battle...... the suns starting to set and they battle is almost won.


Posted by BaybeeBethy Mar 28th 2007

The US Cover makes me wonder where Ron and Hermione are... hope they are okay and don't, like, you know... die. Because then maybe I would have to consider killing myself... or maybe not. Hang in there, you two! Lol :)


Posted by oakshaft79pn Mar 28th 2007

if you look at the full US cover (the one without the writing) you can see a cloud just above harry's raised hand, but look closer it looks like something whooshing away or dissappereing from harry's hand. it does not look like the other clouds, it has definatley got a whosshy shape to it


Posted by Roonilwwazlib Mar 28th 2007

I first i hated it, but NOW I LOVE IT!!!!!!!


Posted by Roonilwwazlib Mar 28th 2007

I first i hated it, but NOW I LOVE IT!!!!!!!


Posted by brightredbucket Mar 28th 2007

I'm going to be so upset when this is all over =[


Posted by PK_LOVE Mar 28th 2007

Wow. Heart's beating fast out of excitement! So close...yet so far. I can't wait 'til that real cover is in my hands.


Posted by HarryQuacker Mar 28th 2007

Posted by Cooper2085 6 hours ago .... am i the only one who reads everyones comments I've read all of them up to that one (top of page 7) so far!! Here is my summary of everything said about the US Version: it's orange. sunrise/sunset? . .No Wands . .Where are they? Some sort of ruin? collesium? rome? the deathly hallows? godricks hallow? beyond the veil? . In the chapter "Horcruxes" in the HBP, Harry says its the difference between being dragged into the arena or going in with your head held high and that makes all the difference in the world. Looks like Harry is at the Arena now! .What are they looking at? . The same thing, or is LV looking at Harry? . It seems to be in the air. Fawkes? a "ghost" of DD? . Harry looks in awe. . quote from OldMrToad on mugglenet comments: Harry looks like he's going out for a pass. (I'm open! Gimme the ball!). .We assume that is Voldemort, is it? they seem to be together and not fighting, are they both looking at something and therefore look that way or is that not LV . could it be someone else? could it be Moody? probably not since this book is obviously about Harry and LV . maybe they are watching Snape arrive (none of them have wands and both expect the other to be attacked by Snape or something) .co-editor said it is Voldemort . .whats with the curtains? . are they just symbolic of the end of the series? the end of Voldemort? Harry? . is it the veil? maybe they are beyond the veil . the curtains are in fron of both Harry and Voldmort but seem to also be behind Voldmort also as if he followed Harry through, maybe thats how Harry destroys him, the curtains seem to be between Voldmort's hands . .bottom of pic: broken wood and stumps .is harry's hand on a rock? .Perhaps the scene is being viewed from a window of a broken house, this would explain the curtains and broken wood . .are those people in the backround? or statues? . Who are they? Death Eaters? Dementers, Order members? muggles? w...


Posted by Belsito Mar 28th 2007

It looks like the trio will be paying a visit to Gringott's. I have a feeling that Mundungus, fearing that Harry is on to him for stealing his stuff, puts all the loot into a vault. Harry remembers about the locket at Sirius's house, goes to look for it, doesn't find it there and either gets Mundungus to tell him where it is or guesses where it is and goes for it. It could also be Voldemort's vault (perhaps under a false name?). In the first book we assume that Gringott's was broken into because of the Philosopher's stone. But what if someone was putting something (a horcrux, perhaps) inside one of the vaults - someone who wanted to remain anonamous or putting something into a vault which is guarded? I love all three covers, apart from the adult cover, either one of the other two poses a hundred questions - will give us something HP to do until the book comes out at least.


Posted by BaybeeBethy Mar 28th 2007

So am I, I will be in tears probably while reading it and at the end, no matter what the outcome of the book. Yeah we will have the movies, but we will never be able to discover the feeling of opening a Harry Potter book for the first time and feeling that swoosh of excitement... :(


Posted by i_loverz_HP Mar 28th 2007

i think ron and hermonie are in the back somewhere or maybe not i forgot does harry say he wants to go alone in the end of the 6th book because dont hermonie and ron want to come with........ but i think its good they didnt put ron and hermonie because harrys the one thats got to do all the stuff i mean it really is all about him.....


Posted by grednforge Mar 28th 2007

on the UK's cover, who is holding onto Harry's back and holding the sword, I wonder???? Very curious indeed, I guess we'll just have to wait till it comes out! July, hurry up!!!! I can't wait that long!!! But I am glad that i get the US cover cause the UK cover looks, uh, interesting....


Posted by Heiress_of_Insanity Mar 28th 2007

Freaky! There's a House Elf holding the sword! *laughs evilly* DOBBY IS EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!! jk. Uh...I'm finally done theorizing...*claps*


Posted by BaybeeBethy Mar 28th 2007

@ i_loverz_HP - I have to agree, it is all about Harry, but i just worry about them lol (God I sound like my mom)! @ grednforge - It's a house elf I think, but I certainly hope it's Dobby!!!


Posted by PhoenixFire72 Mar 28th 2007

OMG!!!! The U.S cover art is AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I


Posted by brightredbucket Mar 28th 2007

We are never ever going to get news of another release date, or title or cover =[. I'll cry whatever happens in this book. harry potter has been such a big part of some of our lives =[.


Posted by ellenfreak3 Mar 28th 2007

OMGGGGG I love it soooo much!!!! *screams and runs around in circles* This is AWESOME!! GAAAAAA now I'm all curious as to what the're looking at!! And where they're at!! *cries* These past 2 years have been TORTURE!! But now we're so close!! I can't wait!!


Posted by Witchy_Woman Mar 28th 2007

Oh mygod!!!!! SQUEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by i_loverz_HP Mar 28th 2007

i think it might be kreacher.....hes the evil one that practically let Sirius be killed in the 5th book because remember Sirius tells kreacher to just leave and get out over xmas break and then he follows voldy and then comes back and then when harrys in the fire asking for Sirius and kreacher says that he was gone when really when he was upstrais tending to buckbeak...... so it is possible that kreacher is still in voldys foot steps and stole and took or something the sword from harry or tricked him....


Posted by julieannlovesjo Mar 28th 2007

yes! i love it and suddenly orange is my new favorite color!!!


Posted by BaybeeBethy Mar 28th 2007

Maybe we can keep begging Jo to write another book all the way until she's resting in her grave (or however else her family decides her to leave the world)! I would love it if she delved into the future's of some of the characters lives, or made a sequal series with Harry and Ginny's child, and Ron and Hermione's and then whoever's kid. And Draco's as their enemy. Well, that depends if they all live, I don't think Draco will make it out alive though...


Posted by HarryQuacker Mar 28th 2007

US Version summary cont: . .are those people in the backround? or statues? . Who are they? Death Eaters? Dementers, Order members? muggles? wizards? all of the above? . .does harry have his scar? probably under his hair, this would seem to be a scene from the end of the book when all the horcruxes are destroyed so perhaps his scar was one of them, or it disappeared when the last one was destroyed or when Voldemorts soul was sucked out of him. . .harry is wearing something around his neck: the locket? it looks like a pouch .


Posted by i_loverz_HP Mar 28th 2007

BaybeeBethy- yeah that is true i know what you mean!!! if ron or hermonie die im gonna be so sad :[[ they are seriously so awesome and have been so helpful to harry that be really depressing if they die.......


Posted by brightredbucket Mar 28th 2007

Yeah, BaybeeBethy. For some reason i think Draco is gonna die.


Posted by dream_spells Mar 28th 2007

OMG! So foreboding...I LOVE it! A new horizon with a happy sunset in the US cover for a good ending? SO mysterious about the UK child cover though with the trio in a mesh of treasure.


Posted by Elphie Mar 28th 2007

the US one is beeeaaaauuuttiful!!!!


Posted by RunnerGirl08 Mar 28th 2007

Has anyone noticed that in the US edition, Harry has the locket around his neck?? Or that in the UK edition, although Ron and Hermione have dress robes or something on, Harry's black shirt is torn, and his left arm looks scraped or cut??? And that there's someone (Dobby? Kreacher?) hiding behind Harry holding up the sword??? Honestly, now that we have this last piece (with the exception of the actual SEVENTH BOOK), I feel really sad, an an overwhelmingly joyful way!!! Oh, this mediocre day has quickly become so AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!! Only 114, 6 hours, 6 minutes and 15 seconds!!!!


Posted by Cate Mar 28th 2007

The blurbs on the UK version are intriguing... I love the cover art!


Posted by i_loverz_HP Mar 28th 2007

yeahhh like but that would be to lame if JK wrote more after harrys life (if he lives) :[ cuz dont you think that would weird i mean the 7th book is like the ending to it all....all of the puzzle pieces are being put back together so if she wrote more i think it would kinda ruin it all i mean it sounds awesome now and of course i would read it no doubt about that but in the long run it would kinda suck.... i love JK and shes like my hero but if you think about it......AHHHH i hope draco doesnt die i would like cry for ever and then be depressed my whole life hes my one of my favs :]]


Posted by keri_potter Mar 28th 2007

OH MY GAWD!!!!!! i so cant believe it. IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE THE RELEASE OF THE TITLE!!!!!. so now i get to spend the next few hours analyzing the cr@p out of each of the covers and try to figure out which each means. though i kind of got the point with the locket on the front of the adult cover. thats a nice locket i kind of want one now even though i wouldnt be in slythern.


Posted by thenishbish Mar 28th 2007

MEEP! YAY. Horcrux alert perhaps for the pendant/locket on the adult covers?


Posted by rphoenix Mar 28th 2007

Is nobody but me more confussed about the childerens virsion? What is it with all the gold? why are they all (look closely) bleeding? Is the sword being held by ron or some hand that came out of no where?


Posted by wishmyhairwasred Mar 28th 2007

wow. i have a LOT to. Firstly, to Dominogameboy, ron doesn't have a sword--it looks like a house elf thingy--Kreacher? Dobby?--is fighting them and pulling them back. it's high time Ron and Hermione ended up on the front cover, if only the u.k. version. i, not living in the u.k, don't get a u.k. version till much later after i have suffiently read my u.s. to pieces, but still...i like them all. There were dementors! oooh! and if Voldie and Harry are together, how come neither have their WANDS????? isn't that slightly essential??? oh. my. gosh. and all that tresure...how many fanfics have i read that end up with Ron, Hermione, and Harry going through treasure to find a horcrux? and, what do u think, sunrise, sunset, or Harry and voldie causing the odd colors? AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! SO EXCITED!! WOO!


Posted by HPgeek4LIFE Mar 28th 2007

that is so cool. i love the US cover. haha. US's book ios so much longer than the UK's. and i think it is very unfair that the stusid levine guy got to read it befroe everyone else. why does he get to? but overall, i love the art.


Posted by vanishingact Mar 28th 2007

OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!! I love it!!! Wow.. usually the UK version is better than the US... but I'm in LOVE with the US one... wow. Shame that I can't order that version in Canada....


Posted by Trelawneys_Fan Mar 28th 2007

I DON'T FRIGGIN BELIEVE IT!!! Not my favourite, though


Posted by purplearcher07 Mar 28th 2007

The US child one looks like it takes place in the Atrium of the MOM. The UK child looks like it takes place in a Gringotts vault or something and the UK adult one looks like the Slytherin locket/horcrux...i'm sure this has alredy been said...but whatever


Posted by thats_nifty Mar 28th 2007

This is so exciting! Yay!


Posted by mellatrix Mar 28th 2007

this makes me sad.. i dont want it to end.. but i want to find out who dies.. grahhh


Posted by kuramagirl119 Mar 28th 2007

Ahh YES I just want to say that the covers rock and ron is not holding the sword, a houself (possibly Dobby) is


Posted by Mnemone07 Mar 28th 2007

*hastily blinks away tears* No, really, I'm happy! Oh Merlin this is awesome! I'm only a bit sad, because now we're really nearing the end. The covers are wicked sweet though- I love all of them. I would like to get a closer look at them, especially at the UK children's version, but I'm ecstatic about the UK adult- Slytherin's locket!!!!!!!! I always imagined it as being tarnished silver with a large, serpentine 'S', but I'm not too fussed about it. Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Posted by hatramroany Mar 28th 2007

This is the first time I feel that the US cover is inferior to the UK cover (for kids, the adults one always sucks imho). I guess it will hinge on the back of the us cover (where his wand may be)


Posted by mweasley721 Mar 28th 2007

Aww! I love how Slytherin's locket in the UK adult version is gold like in the books (even though I never understood why it wasn't silver)! =D These covers are amazing and are irritatingly VAGUE. Voldemort's really creepy - all dementor-ish. I can't wait until the 21st, cause it's HP AND my birthday! xD Aww, I'm ending my teenage years (turning 20) while the series is ending... :( *cries*


Posted by DanielRadcliffeIsSEXY Mar 28th 2007

The UK childrens one looks like it's a prank for April Fools Day! Silly Brits, the REAL Harry Potter covers are for the US!


Posted by keri_potter Mar 28th 2007

did anyone else notice that there is an extra hand on harry's shoulder in the UK version? and i think thats gryffindors sword.




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