Editing literature to conform to current custom

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amanda Geist" <editor at t...> wrote:

> What if, 100 years from now, the term "wizard" took on negative
> connotations and some publisher decided that children would be 
> traumatized by having to read it and possibly add it to their 
> vocabulary, and revisited the Harry Potter books? It is a similar
> scenario.

I wish JKR had decided, even under a publisher's nagging, to call 
female mages wizardesses instead of witches. That small change would 
have saved so much conflict with confused Fundamentalists and so much 
confusion with Wicca.