Wand Order Issue

[Brian Dorband]

No: HPFGUIDX 5571

> voicelady at m... wrote:
> 
...  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.



--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer 
<pennylin at s...> wrote:
> 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.  
> 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?
 
> Penny





This is very disheartening; I wanted to hear what REALLY happened at 
Godric's Hollow that night, thinking JKR had a terrific twist for 
us...imagine HER embarassment the first time this was mentioned - and 
the the next 10 million times!  I imagine that she couldn't (and still 
can't) just say, "Well, I've made a mistake is all; buy the next 3 
books, though, they'll be fine."  

Damn.

I hate to say it, but this DOES change a reader's mindset regarding an 
author.  JKR had already said in interviews that GoF was late because 
of a gaping hole in the plot that she had to rewrite.  Perhaps the 
complexity of the plot is getting the best of her.  I hope it's not 
an indication that other "loose ends" won't be/can't be tied up.  I 
feel bad for her.  

Brian