wand order [Heidi's evidence]

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 5709

Heidi wrote:

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[wand order discussion]

I'm still amazed by this.  I wonder if Bloomsbury have made a similar
amendment in later editions?  If they don't change it, it will remain as an
error, since the Scholastic action suggests that JKR has no intention of
writing something later to justify the mistake.  Either that or Scholastic
edited the passage without JKR's knowledge and have seriously messed up her
continuity... :) This doesn't seem very likely.

I'm fairly certain Bloomsbury still haven't addressed the
ancestor/descendent error in CoS (no one has reported a Bloomsbury CoS with
'descendent' have they?), so perhaps they will leave this 'error' too.    

I find it amusing that we could spend months debating an error and have,
more than likely, missed major clues hidden in the text because we don't
realise their significance.  

Neil


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