[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: The Weasley Clock

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

Carol:
> IIRC, Scholastic has a consistency editor who should have caught both
> sets of inconsistencies. (What, exactly, are they paying her for?) I'm
> not aware that Bloomsbury has a consistency editor, but a copyeditor
> who had edited the previous manuscripts should have caught them. Maybe
> they use a different copyeditor for each book.)

Would a consistency editor get a hold of an English-to-English
"translation," though?  It seems to me that that's something that
either (1) wouldn't get to a consistency editor at all or (2) get to
his/her desk but be of low priority.  But then, I've never worked in a
major publishing house, so I don't know how things get done when you
get into the big time.  :)

Re: your later email
I can accept that JKR is human.  (I read romance novels, and if you
want to talk inaccurate, let's just pick up a period romance and play
the "spot the modernism" game.)  Frankly, the grandfather clock is not
any of the flints that were glaring enough to throw me out of the book
and is a small enough error that I completely understand how JKR
could've missed it.

~Ali