new person and Flints!

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 8442

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amy_kuras at y... wrote:
> Hi everyone!! I just joined and also just finished PA and GoF over my Christmas break from work(my darling husband bought them for me).  I'm hooked--and got 
> hooked on joining a group when people pointed out the inconsistency about who came out of the wand--and also the ancestor/descendant thing in COS. 
> 
> Is it the opinion of most people here that those were on purpose or that they were typos? 
	
Hi Amy! 
	I would never dare to speak for "most people here", suffice it to 
say there is fairly good reason to assume that both are Flints.
A Flint is a boneheaded error named (by me) in honor of Slytherin 
Marcus Flint, who has had to repeat a year at Hogwarts, given that he 
should have graduated by PoA, but was still playing Quidditch.
	The Wand Order thing has been changed: you can read the new text 
in the files section of this egroup. 
	As for the ancestor/descendant thing, some editions say ancestor, 
some later editions have descendant, some even later editions have 
ancestor. It may be that this started out as an error, but Rowling is 
toying with the idea of incorporating it into the story.  Quite a few 
people on this list think she should have done that with the wand order 
bit. 
	The wonderful people on this group are preparing a Frequently 
Asked Questions list which should be out Real Soon Now. (ducks objects 
thrown by the incredibly hard working FAQ committee). In the meantime, 
you can get a run down on some of the theories proposed to  account for 
the wand order and ancestor/descendant things at the Harry Potter 
Lexicon

http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/

> Also, and I am sorry if this is a really stupid question but I have been surfing for two days trying to find the answer...is there a release date (even ballpark, or rumored) 
> for the next book? 

Only that it won't be this year, and should be in 2002.  I want JKR to 
take her time and mystify us properly, not with typos that turn out to 
be clues and vice versa.

Pippin