The wand order mystery...

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 6277

Hi --

heidi tandy wrote:

> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Peg Kerr <pkerr06 at a...> wrote:
> > It's all the more embarrassing since there were MILLIONS of copies
> of the
> > book with the error, not just a measly few thousand.
>
> I'm with Peg on this - and I cannot BELIEVE that there hasn't been
> ANY press on this issue as yet.

I know -- the original mystery/error merited CNN coverage, but yet noone
in the media has picked up on this?  I'm with whoever asked if JKR had
*approved* these editorial changes -- it *still* just doesn't look like
the way she'd have rewritten that scene to me.  If *I* were her, I'd
have opted to come up with some creative explanation for the reversed
order in a later book rather than have that change go through as they've
done it.

> I also went back & checked my Limited Edition copy of GoF - I have a
> first edition of that (it's the purple thing with the gold-edged
> pages) and it has James first, then Lily (i.e. the original order) -
> I wonder why they didn't do it "correctly" in that - they should've
> been able to (or at least it sounds like they knew about it well
> before the Limited Edition was released in October - why didn't they
> just destroy all the copies they'd printed of the Limited Edition &
> do it "right"?

I suspect the Limited Edition was already set at the same time as the
original 3.8 printing of GoF -- it just took longer to produce because
of the cover, page quality, binding, etc.  Just a guess.

Penny



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