One Remaining GoF Reference to James Emerging First (WAS: Alternate printings)

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 42679

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Stan Kosmoski <skosmoskijr at y...> wrote:
> I have been sharing some of the discussions in the
> group with HP fans at work, and got into a conflict
> with the order of spells that emerged from Voldemort's
> wand in GOF. It seems one of my friends has a copy of
> GOF that has Harry's mother emerging first and his
> father following her. I have seen the book, and the
> page number is the same but the text replaces all
> "father" and male pronouns with "mother" and female.
> The roles are completely reversed, and it is not just
> a one word mistake. Has anyone else seen this in their
> copies? This is a US hardcover edition.
 
Now me:
 
I'm glad this came up, because I wanted to check with the group on 
this - I understand from the VFAQ and the salon.com articles that the 
wand order sequence on GoF pages 665-667 (Scholastic hardcover 
edition) was corrected in later versions; however, I'm trying to 
determine why this wasn't corrected on p. 696.  On p. 696, when Harry 
is explaining the events which transpired in the graveyard to 
Dumbledore and Sirius, Harry gets choked up when he gets to the 
part about the "reverse echoes" which emerge from Voldemort's wand.  
My version of the book (which I just bought this summer - I'm a late-
blooming HP fan) says Harry "could see Cedric emerging, see the old 
man, Bertha Jorkins...his *father*...his *mother*..." (my emphases).

Elsewhere in my (presumably corrected) version of the book, Lily is 
consistently described as emerging before James (during the actual 
priori incantatem sequence on pages 665-667; when Harry finds his 
voice and tells Dumbledore and Sirius "how the shadow of Harry's 
*father* had told him what to do" on p. 698; and, when in the 
hospital wing, Harry recalls "his mother's face, his father's voice" 
on p. 714).  

I wondered whether anyone has a version that has *mother* before 
*father* on p. 696?  Also, did the original (uncorrected) US and UK 
editions say that the shadow of Harry's *mother* told him what to do 
(on p. 698)?

Thanks!
Phyllis