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

[mrflynn6]

No: HPFGUIDX 42695

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "erisedstraeh2002" <bdmorrp at b...> wrote:
> --- 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


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I have both a First Edition US hard cover and a new paperback, US 
edition, and page 698 in both issues is the same, as is the text on 
page 714, but page 667 had his father coming before his mother in the 
paperback edition and his mother giving him instructions in the 
hardcover and his father in the paperback.  

I wonder if this is deliberate on JKR's part to cause confusion and 
speculation reguarding the death of James and/or Lily.  I feel it is 
similar to the deliberate "mistake" of the descendent/ancestor 
controversy.


Gretchen