UK/US - Writer, spy RL - SS on Harry - wealth

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 16719

Hiya Storm (what a beautiful name--is it your real name or is your 
real name Snuffles? <g>), 

>I would like to point out 
>though (as someone else had) that JKR made the changes as part of 
getting PS 
>published in the US. I think that she might have been putting on a 
'brave face' 
>about the changes in the previously quoted interviews.

>Do I have any support for this (in or out of cannon <g>)? No I don't. 
So if 
>anyone has a link to an interview or other source that support my 
view please 
>chime in.

I think the best support is that the later books seem to make fewer 
changes.  I have no statistical support for this--even the terrific 
page on hpgalleries.com isn't exhaustive--but having read the UK 
versions and listened to the US versions, I'll say anecdotally that 
this is the case.  I can't help thinking that the more restrained 
editing in the later books, if it is in fact more restrained, reflects 
(1) JKR's confidence that she can hold the line and (2) the 
publisher's confidence that at this point, US kids will read Harry 
Potter even if it's written in Finno-Ugric.

Stephanie wrote:

>Does anybody else think that Lupin could have written _Hairy Snout, 
>Human Heart_ (See FBAWTFT footnote in Werewolves section.)  The 
>publication date is 1975, which would make him slightly older than I 
>thought he was (If, and I'm not totally convinced of this, the 
>Mauraders left Hogwarts in '78 or '79). 

I don't think there's much wiggle room on the Marauders' graduation 
date anymore.  Lupin says "we [i.e., he and Snape] were in the same 
year at Hogwarts," and we know Snape's graduation date within a very 
narrow range from JKR's recent chat where she said he was 35 or 36.  
He was born no earlier than 1955 (that would make him 36 at the 
beginning of PS/SS) and no later than 1960 (that would make him 35 at 
the end of GoF).

What we don't know is how old Lupin was when he started school; he 
might have been older than the usual 11 due to not being allowed in 
until AD became head.  If he entered at the usual age, he was ~15 at 
publication date.  

The only other wiggle room we can get ourselves is if =Snape= entered 
school at an unusual age.

Anyway, enough math.  I lean against Lupin being the author for a 
couple of personal, indefensible reasons.  One is that I like the 
expansion of the werewolf universe beyond the one person we've met.  
Another is that the title is so goofy, and I, who think Lupin is 
perfect in every way, don't want to believe he wrote something that 
sappy!  (Maybe the publisher made him change the title.  Not that 
publishers ever do anything like that. <g>)

Cristin wrote:

>why Sirius thought Remus was the spy? 

Lots of people have answered this, but I still wonder about the flip 
side of the question:  if it was natural to suspect someone very close 
to the Potters, which of course it was, then why was Sirius so sure it 
wasn't Peter?

Rebecca wrote:

>And when it comes to evaluating Snape I think we have to
>remember, or at least try to remember, that Snape is simply not privy 
to a
>lot of information that we, the readers, know about thanks to sharing
>Harry's POV.  And that includes Harry's innocence (or at least 
innocent
>motives) in a lot of cases where he gets nailed by Snape, or 
threatened by
>Snape, for breaking Hogwarts rules.  How can Snape know anything 
about Harry
>except what he sees with his own eyes -- much of which involves
>disobedience, insubordination, etc. and is thus pretty damning?

But he sees Harry day in, day out, and Harry does a lot more than 
break rules.  As a teacher, if your eyes are open, you learn a lot 
about your students' personalities.  You see them interacting with 
their friends; you know what kinds of things they talk about; etc.  We 
know Harry is a nice person, not only because we're privy to his 
thoughts and private conversations, but because of the way he acts 
publicly.  His fellow students like him; so why wouldn't his teachers? 
 I think they do like him and know he's a good, decent kid, unless 
they're so prejudiced against him that they refuse to see anything 
positive about him.  ::cough::

Milz wrote:

>LOL, for all we know, Harry
>could be as wealthy as the Weasley's, but because the Weasley's money
>is spent on the daily living expenses of Arthur, Molly, the Burrow,
>and the dependent Weasley children, it appears less.

In CoS, Harry's vault is full of gold, while the Weasleys' is almost 
empty even before they clean it out for the expenses of Diagon Alley. 
 But of course, the Weasleys do have income, whereas Harry's just 
spending his down.  Wonder what kind of interest Gringott's gives?

Amy Z

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