Harry Potter, the ultimate edition

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., usergoogol at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> 
> Ah yes... maybe after all the Harry Potter books come out they 
could make a collection of the seven books, with the 
original "British" English text, and footnotes, and a brand new 
Leather-bound cover, and fold out pictures of the original american, 
british, and "grown-up" british covers.

I don't care what the outsides look like, but I plan to buy the 
British editions and read them with a copy of a book by my side that 
I gave my mother-in-law about British English for Americans 
(something about two countries divided by a common language--I should 
go to quote.com and look up who said that).  I was thinking about the 
annotation issue while reading "Good Omens" by Gaiman and Pratchett.  
Not only do they manage to convey some very useful information via 
the footnotes (such as explaining firelighters and British currency 
before decimalization), but the notes are usually highly amusing, 
too.  One can see how JKR might use this style in future writing 
endeavors after she's done the Harry Potter books, especially if she 
writes something aimed at adults.  There are amusing annotations 
throughout Fantastic Beasts and Quidditch Through the Ages, as well 
as the hand-drawn and -written embellishments in Fantastic Beasts.

--Barb

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