[HPforGrownups] Re: One Remaining GoF Reference to James Emerging First (WAS: Alternate printings)

[manic]

No: HPFGUIDX 42706

--- mrflynn6 <mrflynn6 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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.

I read in an interview not long after the first edition came out that
it was an honest mistake. JK got thousands of letters pointing out the
mistake and the response was 'whoops, that got by everyone.' If it were
a deliberate mistake, than later editions of the book would have
remained uncorrected. That later editions are corrected, it stands to
reason that it was a mistake and not an attempt of the author to
mislead the reader.



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