another flint?

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50229

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jomamaumd <bobbippon at h...>"
<bobbippon at h...> wrote:
> Don't know if this has been discussed yet, but I think JKR slipped
> up in the location of Myrtle's bathroom.
> 
> Hermione says at the Deathday Party (COS p.132, American paperback):
> "She haunts one of the toilets in the girls' bathroom on the first 
> floor."
> 
> Then, only 6 pages later, "Harry hurtled around the second floor, 
> ...edited...
> 
> Clearly, Moaning Myrtle's bathroom has to be on the second floor
>  next to the scene of the attack, as the water trail came from 
> there - so  the location given on page 132 must be a flint.  
> - jomama

bboy_mn:
We are not the victums of a mistake but of language. 

I haven't read the UK edition, so I don't know if this inconsistency
is in them, but the British first floor is not the American first
floor. I think the British say, 'ground floor, first floor, second
floor' for a three story building. Where as, we in the US say, 'first
floor, second floor, and third floor'. Although someone in the US
might use the term Ground Floor, it means the samething as first floor. 

My impression is that the attack and Moaning Myrtle's bathroom are on
the second level or the second story, not the ground floor. Again, to
a Brit, that is the first floor. 

Anybody with a UK edition who would like to check that out for us?

bboy_mn