[HPforGrownups] More on Priori Incantatum & the Mistake Issue

[Alix Petty]

No: HPFGUIDX 5514

I agree - to me it reads as if someone's just swapped the words around until
it fits what we already know of Lily and James' death.  I would have thought
if it was going to be rewritten it would have been done a bit more
carefully.  Also, I don't know about anyone else, but they've just swopped
Lily and James' dialogue around (with a little bit of tinkering - in the
original GoF James doesn't tell Harry to hold on til his mother gets there -
he just says it'll be alright, even though IIRC it's Lily who actually tells
Harry that they will be able to linger for a short time to help him escape -
yet in the extract Penny quoted Lily feels the need to tell Harry to hold on
for his father) and I think, from the little we know of James, that his
short speech to Harry just reads like James, and it doesn't read quite
correctly as Lily's.  And on further thought, I think the inserted line
reads badly full stop.  Surely, if they we going to swop the order, they'd
have reworked the dialogue properly, instead of just adding one single
superfluous sentence?

Alix

----- Original Message -----
From: Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer <pennylin at swbell.net>
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Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:58 PM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] More on Priori Incantatum & the Mistake Issue


> Hi --
>
> I just re-read through the "corrected passage" and also wanted to note
> that "untidy-haired" doesn't seem like correct usage to me.  It also
> just doesn't sound like JKR or Scholastic editors.  I would think she
> would phrase it more as "James, tall with black untidy hair just like
> Harry's, ..."  or something more grammatically correct.
>
> In short, I still think this is just an internet rumor.
>
> Thoughts?
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> Penny
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