Typos

katzefan at yahoo.com katzefan at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 15 07:05:27 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 24196

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Dave Hardenbrook" <
DaveH47 at m...> wrote:
> On 14 Aug 2001, at 1:57, Bente13 at p... wrote:
> 
> > First American Edition, July 2000. Page 712, second 
paragraph from the
> > bottom. "Time is short, and unless the few of us who know 
the truth do
> > not stand united, there is no hope for any of us." They must 
have
> > fixed it later, the way they fixed the Priori Incantatem thing. I
> > figured it was probably a mistake - a lot of people have 
trouble with
> > double negatives - but with the gleam in Dumbledore's eye 
and all
> > that... just as well to make sure!

I have the Raincoast 2000 version (published in Canada) & this 
has been corrected in that book.
> 
> Not as crucial, but in the same league is this error near the top 
of 
> page 325: 
> 
> "[Madame Maxime] wasn't exactly hard to miss."
> 
> Umm... Shouldn't that be that she *was* hard to miss??

NOT corrected -- good catch!!! (or: wasn't exactly easy to miss)
> 
> Also this one, top of p. 685: 
> 
> "How did your father subdue you?" said Dumbledore.
> "The Imperius Curse," Moody said.  
> 
> But this is *Crouch* speaking!
> 

Corrected.


> Are these errors corrected in the later printings?
> 
> 
>                  -- Dave





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