[HPforGrownups] Re: WARNING Ancestor rehash

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No: HPFGUIDX 52929

Kathryn Wolber wrote:

>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.

You're looking in the wrong place, Kathryn. You should be looking at the 
next chapter (the last in the book), "Dobby's Reward", and it's a 
Dumbledore quote, not a Riddle quote. I don't have the US edition so page 
numbers are useless, but it's just over four pages into the chapter in the 
UK edition,  and the whole quote runs:

"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore calmly, "because Lord 
Voldemort - who is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin - can 
speak Parseltongue."

(BTW for the record, according to the copyright page, I have a 34th edition 
UK paperback, and that has the error as well.)