Penny etc. are famous again

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Steve wrote:

> Well, it looks like we're DOUBLY famous. That Salon article just 
> showed up on CNN.com. Here's the URL:
> 
> http://www.cnn.com/2001/books/news/01/12/salon.potter/index.html

"...Which leads HPforGrownups members to wonder, according to 
Dorband, "Did she actually correct it, or did she just say, 'Oh jeez, 
we got it wrong. Go ahead and change the words'?" Neil Ward, a 
British member, thinks it must be the latter, because the correction 
in both the English and American editions is worded exactly the 
same; "it seems to me very unlikely that Bloomsbury and Scholastic 
would be able to agree on the same rewording without the author's 
involvement." [excerpt from Bolonik K, "Harry Potter hanky-panky", 
Salon Magazine, 12/01/01, posted to www.salon.com and www.cnn.com]

A clarification re the above quote: That is what I said, but the 
implication is incorrect.  I meant that JKR must have been directly 
involved in the rewriting in order for the two publishers to have 
ended up with same text (i.e. not the "latter" point all!).  If she 
had simply said, "go ahead and change the words" they would almost 
certainly have edited it in different ways, IMO.

Oh well!  I'm still smiling at the possibility of JKR saying "Oh 
jeez..."! <bg>

Neil