i like your analysis, skhatun. I agree Harry does look American. I'm pretty sure that the page count is on newsround btw. and they always confirm their sources.

the U.S cover is pretty cool...i like it alot...i can't wait to get my copy in the mail on July 21st because i've already pre-ordered my copy on amazon.com

woooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooot! it's so close now! I thought the shadows in the us cover were tombstones, but they could be people too. I love that cover btw, great atmosphere and Voldy looks terrific! I think the UK kid's version is ugly, at least the way the faces are depicted - Ron looks sorta like he does in the movie (at least just as scared). But I really like the back cover there. I'm so sure Hogwarts will play a huge part! I just can't wait, seeing the full covers there made me feel like the book's ready to be released or something. I wonder what the 180 pages difference is for..maybe there are many chapters and hence more chapter pics for the us book :D

Well you'd think the gap in page numbers would depend on the size of the book. Bigger the book, bigger the difference. So if it's 130 for OotP (which is a good 100-200 pages longer), there's just no way it can be 170 for DH. RAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRR!!

OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !! OMG OMG OMG *SQUEAL* i hav seriously gotten the chills after looking at all the covers! they're awesome!!! the US one is great with harry and voldemort on the cover, i wonder where they are??? and i just realised someone pointed out they don't have their wands. hmmmm. the UK also look fantastic, the adult cover looks absolutely wicked with the locket on the front, and the children's cover also had me squealing. i mean OMG!!! they're jumping out of an arch, surrounded by treasure!!!!!!! OMG now we have even more to speculate about. the frozen deer had me guessing though?!!! but overall, they were FABULOUS and im so excited for the book and movie and i seriously can't wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did anyone also notice that the UK kids version Ron ISNT THE ONE HOLDING THE SWORD!!!! It's something on his back!! It looks like an kreacher or something...

ZOMGODS When I checked Mugglenet I predicted the cover would come out today. The last cover came out during my SB, which was tihs week that year. So I picked it for the middle of the week.

holy beeeep OMG OMG OMG IT HEERRREEEEEEEE, but what the difference between teh kids and the adults book other than te cover, no srsly??

Fantastic! At first not so awesome, but if you look at them better, you can see how they really rule. The American cover, full, is wonderful. Harry and Voldermort (?) during what seems to be a fight in an open space in the middle of a giant construcion. Wow! The position of their hands, as if they were trying to take something, or to evoke any spell (I don't see wands)... and the predominat brown-yellow-golden colour...fantastic! America gives his readers phatos! Maybe the best HP cover, I have to decide! :D However, I have also to say that both the Phoenix and the Prince British Covers for children are better than Hallows' one (and I do not have Goblet's, Prisoner's, Chamber's and Philosophal's under my eyes now): that drawing full of colours doesn't convince me. Yes, it is strange, and thrilling (a bit) because we can see a hand holding a sword becoming from what seems to be a house-efl behind Harry, and Harry's, Ron's and Hermione's faces like scared...but it hasn't taken my breath away like the American cover did. What the hell is all that money? All those golden Galeons (oh I'm sorry I don't know the english name of Magic change)? Are they falling anywhere?? :D I'm excited, a lot, and I'm going crazy if I don't discover in a short time what all those drawing mean! Bye! Sorry for any mistake!

I saw the video of A. Levine on todayshow.com. Go check it out!

did anyone read the summaries? it sounds so depressing! but now we know that harry is going to be escorted from privet drive...

looks allright...wish it was like the red mugglenet cover....but o well! Anybody notice voldy in the far right of the U.S front cover?- the fifth

In case no one has posted it yet, here you can see the reveal on the US Today show. http://today.msnbc.ms n.com/id/17828868/

First thing my brother said when he saw it was "Looks like they're in something together!"...Really can't imagine what the heck that could be, but it's still an interesting thought. And yes, whereas on the US cover it's not visible (at least to me right now), Harry's scar could be on the UK cover (not entirely sure) - that would be great news for the "Harry is a Horcrux" theory ;) What'd you think?

It looks like they just lost their wands or are trying to summon their wands. Almost looks like the Colosseum and a crowd is watching them duel. Is this what is beyond the veil? Cool stuff.

Wow, what a great morning start!!! Many of the comments I've read so far are brilliant! The covers are very open-ended for interpretation this time, much more so than for the other covers. Bravo to all those ppl who noticed that in both the US and UK children's cover, every person has both their hands empty (except for Ron, whose left hand is hidden): NO WANDS!!! Also, whoever suggested that Voldie and Harry are reaching/looking at Fawkes on the US cover is awesome. And whoever suggested that Harry, Ron and Hermione are in Gringotts is equally awesome. I totally didn't think of that! My only real concrete observations are: 1) Ron is NOT holding the sword in the UK children's cover... look closely, there is a HOUSE-ELF hidden behind Harry who is wielding that sword, so now our question is whether it is Dobby or Kreacher?! 2) Both Slytherin's locket horcrux on the UK adult's cover and the sword on the UK children's cover are JEWEL-ENCRUSTED, leading me to believe that the sword is indeed Gryffindor's! Okay, that's all I have to say. Keep up the good speculations everyone!!!

Redmuseer, Scar is definitely visible in the UK cover. I believe it's there in the US cover, but as you observe it's a bit confusing with the hair. I see a sharp angle in the image that does not look like hair. The US version puts the scar more centered on Harry's forehead than the UK version. OMT

This is how the page differences have worked out before now: SMALLER UK FONT PS/SS - US edition 86 pages longer CoS - US edition 101 pages longer PoA - US edition 131 pages longer OotP - US edition 128 pages longer LARGER UK FONT GoF - US edition 116 pages longer HBP - US edition 64 pages longer So as you can see, there's no real pattern. Considering PoA was 131 pages longer in its US version, it makes sense that something as big as DH would be closer to 180 pages longer, making OotP the "odd one out" in terms of its smaller difference.

Oh my gawd, at last some major cool news! :) I like them both alot, they're really neat but I'm a little dissapointed that it only has 608 pages :( I know it will be the awesomist thing ever despite the page-count, but still would have preferred it a little bit longer:( Now, I know that the US versions of the book have chapter pictures and larger writing, but yours is 784 pages long!!! That's, what, 176 pages longer or something? How large must your print be lol :P Ah well, still feeling really awesome now! :):):)

Oh my God I love it! I just wish Mugglenet would make them smaller so I could see the whole thing all together!

OMG i just realized something really creative and metaphoric. On the American version there are curtains, that's right, curtains. Now the last book of Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot was named, you guessed it, Curtain. So maybe this is symbolizing the curtain of the series, the end...

=O VEIL. LOCKET. !!!! OMGGGGGGGGG.. *passes out*

The scar is usually clearly visible so I think that by the end of the book (maybe after destroying all the Horcruxes) Harry will lose his scar. Harry's hair (US version) is kind of covering up the spot where his scar should be, but I think the illustrator did that so we're unsure if he has his scar still. I think Harry has his scar on the UK children's version but it's hard to tell since he has cuts too.

OMG, this is exciting!!!! I absolutely love both the US and the UK versions! I cannot WAIT to get my hands on one of them...

Why are people complaining that the book covers are ugly, and saying they should be changed? I'm pretty sure Jo would have given them the go ahead, and if she's happy with the way they're drawn then isn't that the point? She IS the author after all....I personally liked them all, had already pre-ordered the UK children's edition.

Where is Bloomsbury's announcement of the page count? 608 can't be right. CBBC Newsround wrote: "The book will be 608 pages long, which makes it the second longest in the series." 608 pages is not the second longest book. Order of the Phoenix is the longest and then comes the Goblet of Fire with 640 pages. Can anyone check out if DH is really 608 pages?

I love the US version and the UK version apart from Harry's face. It looks so ugly! Hiafex, I can't tell if Harry has his scar. If he does, it's not very conspicuous.

Fantastic! The American cover, full, is wonderful. Harry and Voldermort (?) during what seems to be a fight in an open space in the middle of a giant construction. Wow! The position of their hands, as if they were trying to take something, or to evoke any spell (I don't see wands)... and the predominant brown-yellow-golden colour...fantastic! And people looking at them... America gives his readers pathos! Maybe the best HP cover, I have to decide! :D However, I have also to say that both the Phoenix and the Prince British Covers for children are better than Hallows' one (and I do not have Goblet's, Prisoner's, Chamber's and Philosopher's under my eyes now): that drawing full of colours doesn't convince me. Yes, it is strange, and thrilling (a bit) because we can see a hand holding a sword becoming from what seems to be a house-elf hidden behind Harry, and Harry's, Ron's and Hermione's faces like scared...but it hasn't taken my breath away like the American cover did. What the hell is all that money? Are they into Gringott Bank? All those golden Galleons (if G. they are) and jewels... And are they falling anywhere?? :D I'm excited, a lot, and I'm going crazy if I don't discover in a short time what all those drawing mean! Bye! Sorry for any mistake (and for have repeated myself)!

it's pretty awesome! I am now so anxious because I want to know where they are and what they are reaching for!!!!!!!!!! squee! w00t! :-D

Wow. That's all.

Posted by Eilidh about an hour ago Anyone else notice a house elf (Dobby?) weilding a sword behind Harry in the UK child version?----------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- ------WHAHAWHAWHAAWHHAAAA !!!! Eilidh, you just invoked the wrath of all Ron and all Rupert fans, by calling the Weasel a House elf. BTW is there any textual support for the idea that Ron is lefthanded; he is wielding the swort with his left hand. Lefthandiness would not surprice me as a common threat among Pure Bloods, I thought the cover of HBP was proove of it, but there was quite an other reason why Dumbledore used his left hand in that story. I think we can asume that the scar will disappear in DH,the UK children cover is likely done by Jason Cockcroft as it is the same style as the cover of HBP and he painted the scare clearly in the middle of Harry's forehead. Think I am going to miss the scar, it was the only thing he liked about his own appearance.-------------- ------------------------- ------------------------- - Anybody any idea what the whitish triangle with the cirlce and the line on the back of the cover icould be, the circle is not divided symmatrical by the line. weird, it is placed in the same spot as the Marvolo ring was. It's slippery to interpreted what we gonna get on base of the cover, but maybe the treasure of Hepzibah Smith is gonna play a role, she own a goblin-made armour, worth 500 galleons...... now I see an armour that could be it, I think Voldy was not only mean and evil, but a cheap shot too................that's worth 2500 galleons!!!!!!

Hey, WOAH, Harry totally doesn't have a scar in the U.S. version and I can't tell with the UK, is that a mistake or does it mean something.

Kamion, look closer. Ron is not holding the sword. The creature on Harry's back is holding it. It looks like a House Elf, but if that's Gringott's then maybe it's a goblin.

I think I actually see the scar now on the US version, it's almost in the exact middle of Harry's forehead, and it's brownish, not redish. Maybe it got lighter? Also with the pendant Harry is wearing, maybe that helps protect him against Voldemort? Ooh, maybe there's "love" in it, so he is extra protected by love. Also, I hope the audience on the US cover is not just death eaters. Maybe Harry's friends are rooting for him but they know he has to fight the final battle alone?

Okay, Reading through all the different Comments and obviously STARING at the covers for the past two and a half hours, here's what I think: - The House Elf IS Kreacher, which would be a Very good Explanation to JK Insisting he was Shown in the OotP movie, saying he is Very Important, that supports the theory he really WAS the one that accompanied R.A.B While Retreaving the Horcrux. - It Could be that the treasure we see thrown around is an Opstacle prepared by LV guarding one of his Horcrux, as a Way to distract whoever was after it from finding the REAL Horcrux. - On the US Cover, It doesn't seem both Harry and LV are Reaching for something, More like, Harry IS reaching out for something (A Horcrux / Fawkes / His Wand) while LV is after Harry Himself (As the Direction of his hand indicates). Also, I noticed that unlike Harry, Voldemort's left hand is the only one showing, which means he COULD actually have his wand in his Right hand, ready to strike. That's all i could think of so far.... LOVE the covers, tho...SO Excited everyone's staring at me here at work :)

Why does Harry look like Blanche from Coronation Street on the UK Cover though?

By the way, to those people who are not sure it's really Voldy - the co-editor said so, so I guess we can trust him on that :)

yesss. i love it!!!

@ "beautifuljkc" : Thank you soo much for that adress to the video deathly hallows interview with the american editor Levine!!!!!!! THANKS! ;). To pass it forward, it´s http://today.msnbc.msn.co m/id/17828868/

Sephiro, look again. Both Voldermort's hands are showing.

Harry's wearing the locket in a chain around his neck in the US cover. What, is he using it as a bait? And say, is that a crystal ball in the back of the UK version? And I notice the black background in the UK version. Sniff... I'll be getting the UK version, but the US version rocks for the first time.

OOPS, I got a larger and higher resolution picture of the UK cover the Leaky Cauldron and..... DEEP SHAME, VERY VERY DEEP SHAME..... it is a House Elf sort of riding Harry's back.........and there is the scar too.... sorry, Kamion is going to iron his hands now.

whats with all the treasure in the uk one???

Looking at the US cover... is that being viewed from inside a corroded house? Could we be seeing what someone inside Harrys parents derelict house is seeing? And what is that Triangle .. Circle ... line thingy?

The UK version is smaller because it uses a smaller font so don't get paranoid. :) The UK version is best because it gives the most away. :)

WOWOWOWOW!!! this is soooo exciting! i dont really like the british version, it looks like they found some buried treasure... maybe it's all the possible horcruxes?? I really like the American version, it is way more mysterious. harry and voldemort are in some place that kinda looks like the Collosiam and i see hooded figures in the background so my guess is they are death eaters (by the way ppl might have already said all thsi stuff, but i havent read any cuz i just wooke up). It also looks like harry and voldemort are reaching for the same thing!!!!! CRAZY COOL STUF!!!! i am so freakin excited! AHHHHHHHHHH!!! what else.... oh there is like a tree stump or something at the botom by voldemort and harry... not idea what that is! i dont get y the british have a kids and adult cover! the kids cover back looks like it's hogwarts so maybe that means that hogwarts will play a bigish role in DH! yay, how long have we been waiting for this??? like forever!!!!!! ok i gg to school... wish i could say more! bye...

OMG!!!! Finally!!!! I don't know if anyone noticed but it looks like there was no scar on Harry's forehead.

Did anyone else notice in the children's UK version, Ron is holding the Gryffindor sword?

Sigh, no ron isn´t holding it. ;). Now that I have examined the covers even more the us cover seems even better, sort of calm but in an eerie and thretening sort of way.

Does anyone know which FONT is used in the UK children edition for the words HARRY POTTER; it looks very closely to the font called Georgia, but differs a bit. I like to use it for some manips for me LJ and want to juse the exact same font.