[HPforGrownups] Corrected page of GoF (Priori Incantatem)

[Barbara Foster Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 15300



Amanda Lewanski wrote:
> 
> > Also, hasn't this mistake in order been corrected in the later
> > reprints?
> 
> I've heard this is the case; haven't seen one.
> 
> --Amanda
> 

This is the corrected text of GoF, as it was posted by someone to the
PoU list a while back (sorry, can't remember who!):
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If ever Harry might have released his wand from shock, it would have
been 
then, but instinct kept him cluthching his wand tightly, so that the
thread 
of golden light remained unbroken, even though the thick gray ghost of
Cedric 
Diggory (was it a ghost? it looked so solid) emerged in its entirety
from the 
end of Voldemort's wand, as though it were squeezing itself out of a
very 
narrow tunnel... and this shade of Cedric stood up, and looked up
and down the golden thread of light, and spoke.
    "Hold on Harry," it said.  Its voice was distant and echoing.  Harry 
looked at Voldemort... his wide red eyes were still shocked... he had no
more 
expected this than Harry had... and, very dimly, Harry heard the
frightened 
yells of the Death Eaters, prowling around the edges of the golden dome...
    More screams of pain from the wand... and then something else
emerged 
form its tip... the dense shadow of a second head, quickly followed by
arms 
and torso... and old man Harry had seen only in a dream was now pushing 
himself out of the end of the wand just as Cedric had done... and his
ghost, 
or his shadow, or whatever it was, fell next to Cedric's, and surveyed
Harry 
and Voldemort, and the golden web, and the connected wands, with mild 
surprise,
leaning on his walking stick....
    "He was a real wizard, then?" the old man said, his eyes on
Voldemort. 
"Killed me, that one did.... You fight him, boy..."   But already, yet 
another head was emerging... and this head, gray as a smokey statue, was
a 
woman's.... Harry, both arms shaking now as he fought to keep his wand
still, 
saw her drop to the ground and straighten up like the others, staring....
    The shadow of Bertha Jorkins surveyed the battle before her with
wide 
eyes.   "Don't let go, now!" she cried, and her voice echoed like
Cedric's as 
though from very far away.  "Don't let him get you, Harry -- don't let go!"
    She and the other two shadowy figures began to pace around the inner
wall 
of the golden web, while the Death Eaters flitted around the outside of
it... 
and Voldemort's dead victims whispered as the circled the duelers,
whispered 
words of encouragement to Harry, and hissed words Harry couldn't hear to 
Voldemort.
    And now another head was emerging from the tip of Voldemort's
wand... and 
Harry knew when he saw it who it would be... he knew, as though he had 
expected it from the moment when Cedric had appeared from the wand..
knew, 
because the woman was the one he'd thought of more than any other tonight....
    The smoky shadow of a young woman with long hair fell to the ground
as 
Bertha had done, straightened up, and looked at him... and Harry, his
arms 
shaking madly now, looked back into the ghostly face of his mother.
    "Your father's coming..." she said quietly.  "Hold on for your
father.. 
it will be all right.. hold on...."
    And he came.. first his head, then his body.. tall and untidy-haired
like 
Harry, the smoky, shadowy form of James Postter blossomed for the end of 
Voldemort's wand, fell to the ground, and straightened like his wife. 
He 
walked close to Harry, looking down at him, and he spoke in the same
distant, 
echoing voice as the others, but quietly, so that Voldemort, his face
now 
livid with fear as his victims prowled around him, could not hear....
    "When the connection is broken, we will linger for ony moments....
but we 
will give you time... you must get to the Portkey, it will return you to 
Hogwats... do you understand Harry?"
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I find the switch to be fairly weak myself, and would have greatly
preferred JKR to explain James coming out first some other way, but
there you go.

Barbara :)