[HPforGrownups] Wand Order Issue

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 5567

Hi --

voicelady at mymailstation.com wrote:

> Even though we'd decided among ourselves that she was probably given
> misinformation, I decided what the heck, let me call and check.  (Hey,
> I made a little poem!)  And the woman to whom I spoke with at
> Scholastic said that there are no plans at all to change anything in
> Goblet of Fire.
>
> So of course this means that Jo did NOT make a mistake, we were
> SUPPOSED to notice it and whisper and buzz over what it could possibly
> mean, and we won't find out until we find out.  That's just the way
> she operates.

Well . . . as it turns out, I have just returned from a trip to Sam's,
and I peeked in the 9th printing of GoF that they have stacked
everywhere.  That passage HAS in fact been changed, and just as the girl
on PoU forwarded to me.  I'm really in disbelief.  There's been no press
notice of this (despite the original CNN article on the "problem"), and
noone who's on this group has anything other than a 1st or 2nd printing
I don't guess.

I think we should get our FAQs written and sent off to Scholastic ASAP.
Who knows what other "errors" or "inconsistencies" that we've caught
that haven't yet been caught by JKR or Scholastic (or Bloomsbury for
that matter).

It also makes me wonder if we should really be going into this level of
theorizing on everything.  If the priori incantatum order was just a
*mistake,* then who knows what else is just a *mistake* also (despite
all our wild theories).  <vbg>

Is anyone else just incredulous that a *mistake* of that magnitude was
allowed to go to press.  I would wager that virtually all of us caught
that on our first read of GoF.  I know I did.  Where *are* the editors?
Are they simply not being given enough time to prevent major collossal
errors like this?  I think they'd be smart to not tie themselves into a
specific release date too early next time around.  Sounds like they
could use more time and more sets of eyes.

Penny



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