British and US Editions

[Joe Bento]

I'm happy to say that my Harry Potter collection is now complete.

For the English speaking world anyway, I now own both the UK and 
American editions.

The UK books just arrived at my home in Utah a couple days ago from 
an easy order on amazon.co.uk.  Now I'm rereading the series in 
its "native" language.

I still don't completely understand why JKR's American editor saw 
fit to change the text at all, regardless at how minor those changes 
are.  As you all probably know, the changes are pretty 
insignificant - colloquialisms primarily that are different between 
the UK and US, though not unheard of in either country. The US is a 
large enough country that some words may be common in both the UK 
and a particular US region, but perhaps not in a different US 
region. Nonetheless, the American editor should give their readers 
more credit and leave the books as written in British English.

Well, I'm not so much a fanatic to collect different covers - in the 
UK editions, I just bought the "adult" cover editions.  Speaking of 
which - anyone notice the photo on P/S is from West Virginia, USA?  
I thought that was rather ironic to portray the Hogwarts Express.

Joe