[HPforGrownups] The wand order mystery...

[Peg Kerr]

No: HPFGUIDX 6254

Flying Ford Anglia wrote:

> During our discussion on the editorial change relating to the figures
> emerging from Voldemort's wand, I dropped a note to Bloomsbury.  Here
> is the reply:
>
> "Thank you for your e-mail.  It is indeed an error which was spotted
> by our editorial team in July and corrected in subsequent editions.
> The difference in timing of corrections between editions, both our
> own and US, is down to reprint timings.  Hope this helps.
>
> Best wishes
> Bloomsbury.com"
>
> Neil

Very interesting.  I note that they say it was spotted by their editorial
team, not by the author.  And no, speaking from personal experience, it
doesn't surprise me a bit.  My copyeditor did spot some doozies that I'd
missed during all my rewrites.

I haven't spotted any really egregious errors in my two books as
published(I've been lucky) but I think I have the temperament that would
make me likely to bang my head against the wall a lot if an error snuck in
and I'd failed to catch it.  Hope Jo is more self-forgiving.

It's all the more embarrassing since there were MILLIONS of copies of the
book with the error, not just a measly few thousand.

Peg