[HPforGrownups] HP Book Error

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Eagle-eyed child spots error in Harry Potter book

  
LONDON, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Like most nine-year-olds, Laila Banjar was 
spellbound by the latest Harry Potter tale of magic -- but she could still 
spot an error missed by proof readers, editors and even author J.K. Rowling. 

Banjar was reading "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" for a second time 
when she came across the glaring mistake -- leading character Crouch, who had 
gone missing on page 485, had made a sudden, and unplanned, reappearance. 

The mistake, widely reported in British newspapers on Saturday, appears in 
the ninth paragraph on page 503 of the 640 page bestseller. 

Banjar's mother, Tracey, sent an e-mail to the publishers Bloomsbury asking 
whether the offending sentence, which reads "'Dumbledore, come!' said Crouch 
angrily.," was a printing error. 

"Yes, you are right about the error, we have forwarded your e-mail on to the 
editorial department," Bloomsbury admitted. 

"We are very upset that this error went unnoticed until after printing." 

The sentence should have referred to Cornelius Fudge and not Crouch. 

"I was really surprised when I spotted the mistake and then I jumped for joy 
when I knew I was right," Banjar, from Somerset in western England, told the 
Times newspaper. 

Bloomsbury stressed the mistake was not Rowling's. 

"Joanne is a complete perfectionist with her book and this mistake crept in 
during the typesetting stage," publicity director Katie Collins told the 
Mirror. 

The book, the fourth in the series about Harry Potter the schoolboy wizard, 
has been a worldwide phenomenon with the largest initial print run in 
history. Total sales of the Potter series run into millions of copies. 

The success of the book has catapulted Rowling to the top of the list of 
Britain's highest paid women. 

And another Harry Potter secret is out of the bag. The Mirror reported that 
Rowling had let slip the title of the fifth book -- Harry Potter and the 
Order of the Phoenix -- during an interview on a television show in the U.S. 

20:33 10-20-00