[HPforGrownups] Re: Page 589 (not 519) - Missing Paragraph

[Derek Hiemforth]

No: HPFGUIDX 87074


>Sherrie said:
>'Harry was so angry with her he didn't talk to her for
>the rest of the day, which proved to be another bad
>one. When people were not discussing the escaped Death
>Eaters in the corridors today, they were laughing at
>Gryffindor's abysmal performance in their match
>against Hufflepuff; the Slytherins were singing
>"Weasley is our king" so loudly and frequently that by
>sundown Filch had banned it from the corridors out
>of sheer irritation.'
>
>Julie:
>I thought this paragraph was out of place for the very
>boring reason that Harry had been a hero the day
>before because of the Quibbler article coming out. I
>didn't think his sudden rose-colored spotlight would
>have faded so quickly to have a day as bad as that. I
>can see why it was altered.

Derek:
It may be also be due in part to ambiguity JKR wished to remove.
The second sentence could be taken to mean that the escaped
Death Eaters were in the corridors of Hogwarts!  :)  Also, the
whole second sentence is rather convoluted and awkward by JKR's
usual standards, using the word "corridors" twice, and so on.
Lastly, if *Arthur* Weasley and his family are indeed going to be
revealed as wizarding royalty as some point (as I suspect), and
the whole "Weasley is our king" business is foreshadowing, perhaps
JKR felt she'd done too much of it and wanted to scale it back a
bit.

(FYI, the missing paragraph is actually on page 589, at least in
my U.S. edition copy, rather than page 519.)

- Derek