Page 589 (not 519) - Missing Paragraph

ghinghapuss rredordead at aol.com
Sun Dec 14 18:16:23 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 87080

> 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.)


Mandy here:
I think it has to do with style of writing.  Perhaps the editors made 
grammatical changes that JKR didn't approve of and somehow the 
passage slipped into the book.

FYI: 
Page 519 in the British edition.  
Page 589 in the US edition.

Mandy






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