Augustus vs. Algernon (was:Neville's Evil Gran?! )

[ghinghapuss]

No: HPFGUIDX 77649

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> Katrina:
> > The Lexicon says under Augustus Rookwood, "In first British 
> >editions of The Order of the Phoenix, Rookwood's name is 
erroneously 
> >given as Algernon"
> 
> Mandy:
> >Thanks Katrina I had missed that. However, how do we know it was a 
> >mistake in the UK first edition? Surly that came first before the 
> >US 'translation'.
>  
> Except that this is OoP that we're talking about. The UK and US 
editiions 
> were published simultaneously (well, OK, five hours apart). Given 
that JKR had 
> contracts with both publishers before completing the manuscript, I 
doubt that 
> Bloomsbury got hold of it much ahead of Scholastic.
> 
> If, in the UK GoF, we have an Augustus Rookwood of the Dept of 
Mysteries 
> mentioned at Bagman's court appearance as having passsed on 
Ministry secrets (I'm 
> working from memory - a child has had the audacity to borrow the 
book <g>) and 
> then in the UK OoP, we have an Algernon Rookwood convicted of 
leaking MoM 
> secrets, application of Occam's razor suggests that "Algernon" is 
an error.
> 
> OK, it might not be, but in that case, we have to assume that JKR's 
US 
> editors made a mistake, *assumed* it was an error and "corrected" 
it, presumably 
> with JKR's consent.
> 
> In previous discussions of the discrepancies between the UK and US 
editions, 
> it has become clear, at least to me, that the UK and US editorial 
processes 
> are quite separate.  Time and again we find errors that have been 
corrected in 
> one edition and left in the other.
> 
> Why this should be, I can't imagine. Why, if her US editor picks up 
an 
> apparent error (which presumably needs to be checked with the 
author before 
> correction), this isn't then brought to the attention of JKR's UK 
publisher (or vice 
> versa) is something I've never fathomed.
> 
> ~Eloise
> 
> Although he could just be Augustus Algernon Rookwood, which has a 
certain 
> ring to it. Or perhaps he's *really* Algernon, but before he was 
outed as a DE 
> and a mole, assumed the name Augustus as he felt it cut a bit more 
of a dash.
> 

Thanks again. I do like Augustus Algernon Rookwood.
Mandy