Wand order

[Simon J. Branford]

No: HPFGUIDX 5838

Neil wrote: "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."

Today I was in a bookshop and due to the rather long queue ended up next to
a stack of GoF's. I decided I would have a quick peak and was amazed to find
that the passage has also changed in the UK edition.  In a 14th printing the
passage had Lily then James emerging from the wand and seemed to be the same
as the passage posted here last week. The passage was still unchanged as of
the 12th printing. So it seems that Bloomsbury has recently changed the
passage. Both of these where printed by the St Ives printers.


Neil wrote: "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."

Which bring me to this point. I have still to find any Bloomsbury printed
edition of the book in which this has been changed.

<rant>
And at this point imagine a very long rant against fire alarms going off at
3:30 am. I am just too worn out to write it!
</rant>

Simon