A New Flint?

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 26824

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Haggridd" <jkusalavagemd at y...> wrote:
> I was rereading PoA (hardcover, Bloomsbury, 20th printing) and lo 
and 
> behold, on the first page of Chapter One Harry is reading "A History 
> of Magic" by Adalbert Waffling!  I knew that wasn't correct, so I 
> checked my copy of PS (also hardcover, Bloomsbury, 20th printing) 
and 
> confirmed from the list of first-year textbooks in Chapter Five, 
> "Diagon Alley", that Bathilda Bagshot had written that book, while 
> Adalbert Waffling had written "Magical Theory."  I have never come 
> across this Flint before.  Am I the first to do so?  

No, but (consults L.O.O.N. handbook) you do get 50 points for being 
the first to note it on this list.  Edward Olson, who compiled a list 
of all differences between the editions, noted it--his list is at the 
Lexicon:

http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/differences-pa.html

(It isn't complete, by the way.  I know of at least one off the top of 
my head that isn't on there.  So you could nitpick PA to your heart's 
content and send Edward an update.)

I could have sworn I'd heard about this one from some interview . . . 
anyway.  I'm totally stunned by anyone paying enough attention to who 
wrote what book in PS/SS to pick up on a discrepancy in PA.  That 
bespeaks an obsessiveness that is truly frightening, but Bathilda 
thanks you.

I think we need, not a club, but a support group for people who are 
driven to actively seek Flints.  It could meet in the basement of the 
L.O.O.N. offices.  I'm not sure about a title, because FFA (Flint 
Finders Anonymous) is already taken.

Amy Z
who thinks this behavior is way more obsessive than analyzing Harry's 
handwriting

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 JKR:  Maps are a great source for names . . .
 Interviewer:  Really?
 JKR:  Yeah.  Dursley and Dudley and Snape are all, 
   erm, places I can't visit anymore, obviously.
                           --Blue Peter interview
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