Wand Order Story for Salon.com

[Joy Wotton]

No: HPFGUIDX 6943

I shall be interested to see the Salon.com article.


<<Joy: But are there ANY other women in Harry's life who are of such
overwhelming importance that he would think of them?>>

<<No, I don't think so Joy.  That's basically what I said to the reporter,
but I may forward your message to her anyway in case she wants to add your
spin on it.>>

That's fine with me, Penny!

<<Penny:  I did not, for example, make mention of what you point out: the
"corrections" don't require page layout changes.  Surely they aren't trying
to be *cheap* are they???!!>>

I think this is a mixture of cheap and expedient. Let us suppose that JR
decided not to rewrite the passage herself, but simply suggested that
mother/father should be swopped around. The publisher would make minimal
changes for fear of introducing new errors (and b'lieve me this happens ALL
the time!). Or perhaps JR told the publisher that yes she had got the order
wrong and no she hadn't got time to rewrite the passage at present. This
would be a holding measure, and perhaps the text will be thoroughly revamped
when the series is correct.

Or perhaps they want to stick or "tip in" the pages into the book without
going to the expense of pulping the old ones but just removing the offending
pages and sticking in some new ones. That would certainly mean keeping the
corrections into as small a space as possible.

And just what, I wonder, is happening in the foreign editions. Did they have
the wand order mistake? Are they now being corrected?

It's much easier to ask questions than to answer them, but I do agree that
the original version has more emotional impact than the revised version.

In the words of 1066 AND ALL THAT do you prefer the Cavaliers who were Wrong
but Wromantic or the Roundheads who were Right but Repulsive?
Joy