[HPforGrownups] HP Book Error

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 4230

Hi, guys. In the American edition it's on page 580, the last page of chapter 29,
and it's been fixed (at least in mine) to read Fudge, as it should.

--Amanda, no life but flipping thru these books

HarryPotterJrs at aol.com wrote:

> 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
>
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