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Originally Posted by bizzybody
BTW, there's quite a few differences between a duster and a trench coat.
Dusters are designed for riding horses, to help keep the dust stirred up by the horse off the rider's clothes.
What I imagine may have gone through the artists mind... 
"Hmm, this summary the publisher sent for the art says he wears a duster. Isn't that like a trench coat? Doesn't say anything about a hat... but he's a wizard and wizards wear hats but he's a present day wizard so pointy is right out..." |
You look in the stories and there's no hat on Harry. So who approved the cover art? That person needs to be fired. I can understand when a cover is not accurate because it's a collage of parts of the book. That I can deal with no problem. But to get very simple details wrong like the leather duster and no hat, that's wrong and heads should roll.