the term "wench" was Re: HP and rules

[serenadust]

No: HPFGUIDX 37483

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "alhewison" <Ali at z...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> wrote:


> > deafness" in Hagrid's hut where Harry calls Rita Skeeter a 
wench...

Ali wrote:
> 
> Does the US edition really call Skeeter a "wench"? in the UK


I don't know which edition of GofF Finwitch has, but the American 
edition definitely says:""You don't think anything that Skeeter cow--
sorry, Professor," he added quickly, looking at Dumbledore." 
I agree completely that *nothing* should be changed from the British 
text to the American editions.  Even if there are a few unfamiliar 
terms, their meanings are usually easily deciphered by reading in 
context.  We really aren't *that* stupid.

Jo Serenadust, building her own "compare and contrast" library of US 
and UK editions