[HPforGrownups] The Official Priori Incantatem in GOF Paperback

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 41715

Becca writes:

> Today, I received my pre-ordered paperback edition of GOF, and
> turned right to chapeter 34, "Priori Incantatem." Sure enough, the
> familiar words have been changed. The following is taken from page
> 667 of the USA paperback edition of GOF (emphasis added):
>
> "And now another head was emerging from the tip of Voldemort's
> wand...and Harry knew wheh he saw it who it would be...he knew, as
> though he had expected it from the moment when Cedric had appeared
> from the wand...knew, because the *woman* was the one he'd thought
> of more than any other tonight..."

I'm confused.  (Which is nothing unusual)  What has been changed exactly?
That's what my hardcover USA edition says.  What am I missing?  Help!!  I
don't have the paperback yet (I'm buying for myself ON Harry Potter's
birthday--a HP birthday present, you see) so I can't check.

Please explain so I can get my brain straightened out. :)

Richelle

> And so it continues, with Lily telling Harry "Your father's coming,"
> and the rest we already know. I need to read the whole scene, and
> indeed the whole ending really, because as I recall, Harry was
> thinking a lot about his father on the final day of the Triwizzard
> Tournament, but not so much about his mother, and I wonder if any
> editing was done to this end so that the phrase "the woman he'd
> thought about more than any other" makes a little more sense.
>
> I guess we already knew that the Priori Incantatem scene was flawed,
> but it was strangely exciting to see the changes for real, and to be
> (crossing her fingers) the first to post about them!