Ripper's tail and paw :-)

[Geoff Bannister]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "wildirishrose01us" <wildirishrose at ...> wrote:

Marianne:
 
> I have the 1999 Scholastic hardback of the book and it says tail.  In my 2004 Bloomsbury paperback it says paw.
 
> Small differences in the books.  I've noticed mainly puncuation, some spelling and maybe the meanings of words.  I'm not sure.  I haven't paid that much attention to the acual differences.

Geoff:
This is because the Scholastic editions have been translated 
into US English whereas the Bloomsbury copies are in their 
original language.
:-))

Therefore the question which has arisen here is whether this was 
an editorial alteration; I would guess that this is the case.. There 
have been a number of occurrences such as this.

I think the Lexicon lists  many of them.