another flint?

[Steve <bboy_mn@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 50233

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "joy_the_lemur
<joy_the_lemur at y...>" <joy_the_lemur at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve <bboy_mn at y...>"
> <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> > --- 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
> > > ...edited...
> > > - jomama
> > 
> > bboy_mn:
> > We are not the victums of a mistake but of language. 
> > 
> 
> [Snippage of differences in UK and US concepts of floors]
> 
> > 
> > Anybody with a UK edition who would like to check that out for us?
> > 
> > bboy_mn
> 
> No problem. 
> 
> 'She haunts the girls' toilet on the first floor,' said Hermione. 
> (UK COS p 101)
> 
> Harry hurtled around the whole of the second floor, ...(UK COS 
> p 105)
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> Looks like a missed detail indeed. 
 
> 
> So in common US terms, Moaning Myrtle's bathroom would be on the 3rd
> floor, even if in the US version, they say 2nd floor.  
> 
> I dislike this arbitrary and inconsistent "translation" thing going
> on.
> 
> -Joy

bboy_mn:
Joy, it looks like you are right. I reread some of the parts in my US
edition (paperback) and they seem to consistently use the same UK
references. In the front door (ground level) up the marble staircase
(first floor) up another staircase to Moaning Myrtle's bathroom
(second floor).

That would make Hermione's statement the FLINT. If Hermione were
mixing terms, she would have said second or third floor, not first
floor. All other references seem to point to the third level/second
floor as the correct location. 

So, I guess it is a mistake. No one at the publishers seems to have
caught it though. 

bboy_mn