Harry Potter and God - GOF

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10@> wrote:
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> > Our version says "curse".
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> zanooda:
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> In this case it's possible that they planned to Imperio Crouch Sr, not to kill him from the very beginning. Maybe "curse" means the Imperius curse :-). I don't understand why American editors feel the need to change things like that. "Curse" is definitely not the same thing as "death". LV could have meant any curse, not necessarily the Killing curse. They just confuse us, those editors (please don't take it personally, Carol :-)).
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Carol responds:
Not at all. :-) There's good editing and bad, and that change was a bad one. Some of JKR's misplaced modifiers, though, could have used a bit more editing, IMO. *And* JKR should have checked any proposed changes more carefully. It's the author's responsibility to accept or reject any editorial changes and to respond to editorial queries.

Carol, who prefers clients who *know* they need a copyeditor and are grateful for the help