Missing paragraphs

[Andrea H Bonfanti]

No: HPFGUIDX 8561

Hi, everyone!

Yesterday, I bought a copy of CoS in Portuguese. I've read all the books in English (UK edition), and now I want to read them in my mother tongue (mainly to complain about the translation :-) ). But, then, to my complete astonishment, I've found that my British edition may be missing a couple of paragraphs! 

In chapter 5 (The Whomping Willow), right after Ron and Harry miss the Hogwarts Express, Ron comes up with the idea of flying the Ford Anglia to schoool. In my British paperback edition, he says:
  'We're stuck, right? And we've got to get to school, haven't we? And even underage wizards are allowed to use magic if it's a real emergency, section nineteen or something of the Restriction of Thingy ...'
And the immediate following paragraph goes:
  Harry's feeling of panic turned suddenly to excitement.
  'Can you fly it?'
However, in my Brazilian book, there are two paragraphs BETWEEN the ones above. Traslating from Portuguese:
  'But your mum and dad ...' said Harry, pushing the barrier once more in the vain hope that it would give in. 'How will they get home?'
  'They don't need the car!' said Ron, impatiently. 'They can Apparate! You know, disappearing here and reappearing at home. They just use Floo Powder and the car because we're all underage and don't have a license to Apparate.'
Can anyone tell me if you have these paragraphs in your books? They make sense to me, as I suppose Harry would be concerned about stealing the Weasley's ride home and it's the first time anyone ever mentions Apparating. And, as bad as the Brazilian translation may be, I don't think they'd go around making paragraphs up.

Thanks,
Andrea


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