British Harry more honest? and Hermione's forthrightness

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No: HPFGUIDX 8377


Amy, you've found another Flint! (an error/inconsistency) 
	My UK edition says 
'I did think of Voldemort first,' said Harry honestly. 'But then I -
I 
remembered those Dementors.'

The UK version makes more sense. There is an earlier post from Peg
Kerr 
about the vagaries of publishing which explains how errors and 
corrections chase each other through the proofing process, often
going 
astray
. 
	What really startled me, in comparing my US and UK sets, was the 
famous line in CoS about the reason Hermione avoids Moaning Myrtle's 
bathroom.
	My US edition says,
Chapter 8 "The Deathday Party"
"...; it's awful trying to have a pee with her wailing at you--"

 and my UK edition says,
"...,it's awful trying to go to the loo with her wailing at you--"

Do any of the British editions have 'pee'? It seems a tad more 
forthright than the British idiom.
Pippin
	
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> Hello chatters,
> 
> I'm reading the U.S. version of PoA, having previously read the
U.K. 
> version.  I could swear a line has been changed (significantly, not
just a 
> British-to-U.S.-English switch).
> 
> It's in "Flight of the Fat Lady," p. 155/U.S. hardcover.  Herewith
the U.S. 
> version:
> 
> [Lupin said:]  "But I didn't think it a good idea for Lord
Voldemort to 
> materialize in the staffroom.  I imagined that people would panic."
>      "I didn't think of Voldemort," said Harry honestly.  "I -- I
remembered 
> those dementors."
> 
> If memory serves, the U.K. version went more like this:
> 
>      "I did think of Voldemort at first," said Harry honestly. 
"But then I 
> remembered those dementors."
> 
> The scene to which he refers ("The Boggart in the Wardrobe") is
unchanged:  
> he first thinks of a resurrected Voldemort and then remembers the
Dementors.
> 
> Would someone please check and tell me:  (a) did I dream it up? 
and if not, 
> (b) why do you think this change was made?
> 
> Maybe British kids are just more honest than American kids. (duck)
Don't 
> hit!  I'm American!
> 
> Amy
> 
> - - - - - - - - - -
> The Whomping Willow was a very violent tree that
> stood alone in the middle of the grounds.
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