[HPforGrownups] Wand Order Story for Salon.com

[Joy Wotton]

No: HPFGUIDX 6846

Brian Dorband wrote: I am posting this in order to give all a chance to
sound off regarding the wand order issue. Who died first? James or Lily?

Bad Borders. I went to their shop on Charing Cross Road in London this
evening. They are selling the original version of GOBLET for 11.99 and the
new version for 14.99 - with no indication at all why the prices are
different.

Looking at the corrected Wand Order scene I see that the correction fits
neatly within the spread and doesn't roll on to the following page. Find it
hard to believe that JR rewrote this herself since the simple transposition
of mother and father leads to the statement when Lily emerges that Harry
sees the woman he has thought of more often than any other that night. But
are there ANY other women in Harry's life who are of such overwhelming
importance that he would think of them?

At the beginning of GOBLET Harry writes to Sirius very much because he has
no parent/father. His relationships with Dumbledore and (earlier) with Lupin
are shown to also have intense emotional significance, partly in lieu of a
father. But I can't see that either Minerva or Mrs Weasley have this sort of
charged relationship with him.

Perhaps because we have discussed this at length, I find that the first
version of the scene (although wrong according to the facts as we know them)
makes much more sense because it strengthens our picture of Harry's
relationship with his father. The second version doesn't add to our picture
of Lily and I find it lacks depth.

So shucks.

Joy

PS Sorry if this has been discussed ad infinitum. I'm hundreds of messages
behind and though I've been reading her and there to see if anyone else has
made this point I can't find it.