mistake???

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49474

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, srsiriusblack at a... wrote:
> 
> Well... 
> 
> I have been for a while now comparing editions of the HP books, and
> with the small exception of the UK editions being in English 
> (giggle) ... ... ...in re-reading GoF, I *did* discover 
> something. I have yet to find it on the list, and if it has been
> discussed before, please pardon the redundancy.
> 
> GoF UK Edition Cloth pg 579, right after Bertha Jorkins appears 
> from the wand:
> 
> ...edited.... 
> 'You're mother's coming...' he said quietly. 'She wants to see
>  you... it will  be all right... hold on...'
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Now looking to the US Paperback edition, page 667 same place:
> 
> ...edited...
> 'You're father's coming...' she said quietly. 'Hold on for your
> father... it will be all right.... hold on..."
> 
> Interesting little difference I thought I would share....
> 
> -Snuffles


bboy_mn:
 
Actually this is something that has been discussed. Of course, here,
pretty much everything from the mundane to the insane has already been
discussed. So don't let it bother you.

Generally, this is consider a mistake. Presumably, when JKR wrote it
she simple forgot that things were happening in REVERSE chronological
order and wrote it wrong. Supposedly, it has been corrected in all
editions in the more recent printings.

Others speculate that the JKR really did intend to write it that way,
and information that will be revealed in later books will explain this. 

For now it's considered a mistake that's been corrected. Although some
have indicated that it has only been corrected in the American
versions. Which only confuses the matter that much more.

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn