Ripper's tail and paw :-)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:

zanooda:
> Could anyone with the British edition of PoA please check if in Ch.2 Harry remembers to have once trodden on Ripper's paw or on his tail :-)? In my British edition it's the paw, but in my American edition it's the tail. Maybe it's different in some other year edition? 
> 
> I have Scholastic first edition (1999), but Bloomsbury 2004 edition, so I'm not sure if it's the difference between two British editions or between British and American editions, and I would like to find out. The Lexicon doesn't have it on their list of differences, so I can't figure out what it is. The paw seems more logical to me, because a bulldog's tail is really short :-). All this is on p.19 Br.ed. and p.18 Am.ed. Thank you :-)!

Geoff:
I have a Bloomsbury edition of POA I bought in October 2003 but 
is dated as the 1999 edition. It has "paw".

I agree, it is physically impossible to tread on a bulldog's tail. The 
only way you'd get there would be by kicking the poor beast up the
backside.
:-))