Priori Incantatum [Fwd: THe Wand Mistake]

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 5509

Hi --

The message below came from a member of the PoU message group.  She
asserted last night that the wand order "problem" was a mistake and had
been corrected in subsequent editions of GoF.  She posted what purport
to be "corrected" passages to this scene from GoF.  I asked her to email
me privately regarding her source as the topic is OT for the PoU group.
Her response is below.  As you can see she isn't a member of our group
and doesn't seem to plan on joining.

Here's my issue: Harry hadn't been thinking about his mother that
evening.  He'd only been thinking about his father.  So, the change
doesn't really make sense to me, and I confess that I'm more than a bit
skeptical.  It seems to me that if it was a mistake: (a) there would
have been some press coverage since the original "error" was written up
in a CNN article; and (b) the scene would have been rewritten more
expansively than simply changing the names & pronouns.  I'm not sure if
JKR has addressed this at all in interviews since the release of GoF --
does anyone else recall if she's been asked & enigmatically refused to
answer (or am I making that up)?

I'd love if one of our NY members would call the number that she lists
at the bottom of that message & try to investigate for us.

Penny


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