[HPforGrownups] Re: WARNING Ancestor rehash

[Kathryn Wolber]

No: HPFGUIDX 52928


 
 SeventhSqueal <seventhsqueal at yahoo.com> wrote:
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.

When did your book come out, because as far as I can see, my US paperback addition DOES have the correction.  I could be wrong because I didn't know what page to be looking on, I just skimmed through the chapter "The Heir of Slytherin" and read everytime I saw "Slytherin" and I found Riddle saying he has Slytherin's blood running through him and calling himself Slytherin's heir. I'm pretty sure the one I have is the most recent printing, November 2002.

~Kathryn



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