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[Brian Dorband]

No: HPFGUIDX 4546

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

      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. 







The above article was on the web yesterday.  Did WE know about this?  
I'll need to check my copy tonight.  Not really intriguing - just a 
mistake...


Brian