More on Priori Incantatum & the Mistake Issue

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 5517

Until Scholastic or Bloomsbury issues an official statement, I 
wouldn't put too much stock in this.

:-) Milz

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Alix Petty" <bel_imperia at b...> 
wrote:
> 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 s...>
> To: HPforGrownups <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
> 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?
> >
> > Penny
> >
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