"One more death"

[cindysphynx]

No: HPFGUIDX 32327

Margaret wrote:

> The text of the American edition may actually be earlier.  Recall
> that GoF was published simultaneously in the UK and the US to
> avoid undermining the US edition with UK imports by people who
> Couldn't Wait. ("Who, us?" she asks innocently.)  If that's so,
> Rowling may actually have had =more= time to do small fixes on
> the UK version before it hit the presses.
> 
> Or, of course, the UK publishing house may have had a
> sharper-eyed editor.


OK, we really have to get to the bottom of this.  My contribution is 
that my U.S. edition (purchased this spring) says "murder."  My UK 
edition (purchased fall 2000) says "curse."  

Does anyone have an early UK edition or any early U.S. edition?  What 
do the paperback versions say?  Does anyone even care?

Cindy (who hates uncertainty)