[HPforGrownups] Re: WARNING Ancestor rehash

[SeventhSqueal]

No: HPFGUIDX 52923

 Meliss9900 at aol.com wrote:


> katydid3500 at yahoo.com writes:
> 
> > It's already been established in interview that it
> was supposed to be heir, 
> > or that it's supposed to say that Slytherin is Tom
> Riddle's ancestor.  


SeventhSqueal responds:

For the record I have a recent US paperback printing
of CoS and it still reads 'ancestor'. How many more
printings will it take before the error is fixed? When
the series has been published in its entirety? It
seems odd that such a successful book in multiple
printings that has been out for a few years now would
still have a very well-recognized and glaring error
that the author herself claims is a mistake.

This series is going to be a classic of children's
literature at the very least. JK Rowling and her
publishers knew that after the tremendous success of
Sorcerers Stone. One would expect that an author who
is very proud of her work, and knows that it will be
discovered by children (and grownups) for generations
would be horrified that such an unintentially
misleading typo would mar her classic beyond the hasty
first printing. This is very peculiar.

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~SeventhSqueal

There's no earthly way of knowing / Which direction we are going / There's no knowing where we're rowing / Or which way the river's flowing / Is it raining? / Is it snowing? / Is a hurricane a-blowing? / Not a speck of light is showing / So the danger must be growing / Are the fires of hell a-glowing? / Is the grisly reaper mowing? / Yes, the danger must be growing / 'Cause the rowers keep on rowing / And they're certainly not showing / Any signs that they are slowing!

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