UK vs US Harry Potter

[annemehr]

No: HPFGUIDX 77759

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> While I'm about it....
<snip>
> I'd been wondering whether, and if so how much, the text had been 
> Americanised this time. For example, what is the tailor's dummy in 
the window of Purge 
> and Dowse (the shop fronting St Mungo's, Ch. 22) wearing in the US 
edition? In 
> the UK edition it's a pinafore dress. Has that been changed to 
jumper as 
> Harry's jumper was changed to sweater in PS/SS?
> 
> ~Eloise

No, in the US it's a "green nylon pinafore dress," so I guess no 
change.  A pinafore dress to us is not quite like a jumper, but is a 
two-piece dress, where the ruffly, sleevless overdress allows the 
sleeved, slightly longer under one to show -- is that what it is in 
the UK?

What *I* wondered about is the scene where Harry has been sent to 
see Prof. McGonagall with a pink note from Umbridge, and McG says:

"Have a biscuit, Potter."
"Have -- what?"
"Have a biscuit," she repeated impatiently, indicating a tartan tin 
of /cookies/ lying on top of one of the piles of papers on her 
desk. "And sit down." [emphasis mine, quote from ch. 12]

What does the UK edition say where US has "cookies"?  Biscuits 
again, or Ginger Newts?  That passage made me smile, anyway, (aside 
from McG letting a little affection show) because it seemed like 
Scholastic wanted to make sure we knew what a "biscuit" was.

Annemehr
whose first thrill of joy (after actually cracking OoP) came in the 
second paragraph, in which "...the soles of his TRAINERS were 
peeling away from the uppers."