To Catlady re Prefect badges

[Carol]

Carol earlier:
  
> > See the Lexicon's page on changes and edits to the books. Percy's
> badge in Book 1 had been changed to match Ron's in OoP:
>  
> > http://www.hp-lexicon.info/about/books/ps/changes_ps.html
>  
> > Apparently that applies only to the British Bloomsbury edition and
any translations based on it, not to the American Scholastic edition.
> 
zanooda responded:
> 
> In my Bloomsbury PS book Percy's badge is still silver (the book is
printed in 2004) :-).
>
Carol:
That's interesting. What about the other changes? And why on earth
would JKR or her editors decide to delete "1 wand" from the equipment
list? Offhand, I'd say it's the most important item on the list!

I didn't check my Scholastic edition to see whether it has the same
errors (not counting the wand, which is not an error, or the Prefect
badge, which I remembered and recognized as an inconsistency when I
first read OoP) because the page numbering is different. I'm pretty
sure that I would have noticed a stray apostrophe at the beginning of
a line, I assume that it was a single quote ("inverted comma") caught
and deleted by the American copyeditor, one of whose tasks would be to
Americanize the punctuation. I notice, though, that nobody caught and
corrected the spelling "miniscule" for "minuscule" somewhere in Book 1
(the American edition, at least--maybe it was corrected early on in
the British edition, which would explain why it doesn't appear on that
list. I've noticed that "minuscule" is spelled correctly in the later
books. (JKR seems to like the word--it appears in most if not all the
books.)

Carol, wishing she had the time to examine the books for differences
and discrepancies in preparation for a revised American edition--or
how about "The Annotated Harry Potter"?--for which, of course,
permission which would never be granted