Newer UK Edition of CoS Has Three Changes From Original Edition

[alhewison]

No: HPFGUIDX 44023

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "erisedstraeh2002" <bdmorrp at b...> wrote:
> I promised the group that I would identify changes made in the UK 
> adult paperback versions of the books as I make my way through 
them.  
> I've just finished CoS, and have three changes to report (I'm 
> assuming that these are changes from not only the US editions, 
which 
> I have, but are also changes from the original UK editions, which I 
> do not have. I checked the pages on the Lexicon that note the 
> differences between the US and UK editions, and these changes are 
not 
> noted, so I'm presuming that the following are changes from the 
> original UK editions as well):

Sorry this is such a late response, but I've been on holiday and am 
still wading through all the old posts.

I  actually wonder here if your initial presumption is perhaps not 
right - namely that the original UK editions have been changed. I 
bought CoS in c. February 1999 and it must therefore be one of the 
earliest paperback UK editions. This edition was released only 6 
months after the hardback but I believe well before the US editions? 
It's passages are similar to the ones you quote for the latest 
editions. It also contains the passage relating to Dobby being 
heavily bandaged as per the Candadian edition. 

Of course, my belief that the UK texts are basically unchanged (with 
the exception of course of the wand order and various 
minor "Flints"), doesn't alter the frustration about why the more 
major text changes were made between UK and US editions. I personally 
hope that if and when OoP comes out that there will be no changes 
between the texts (well except spelling!)


Ali

who remembers being given a LOON badge some while back, but can't 
remember what it was for!