[HPforGrownups] OoP Possible FLINT(?): Weasley's Joke Shop Name

[Patricia Bullington-McGuire]

No: HPFGUIDX 67569

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 SnapesSlytherin at aol.com wrote:

> On page 54 of the US Hardback GoF:
> "What have they done this time?" said Mrs. Weasley.  "If it's got anything to 
> do with Weaselys' *Wizard* Wheezes - " (Emphasis my own!)
> 
> On page 675 of the US Hardback OoP:
> "If anyone fancies buying a Portable Swamp, as demonstrated upstairs, come to 
> number ninety-three, Diagon Alley - Weasleys' *Wizarding* Wheezes," he said 
> in a loud voice.  "Our new premises!" (Again, emphasis my own!)
> 
> Which is it?  Wizard or Wizarding?  It *could* just be that the American 
> editors are at it again...

Or the twins could have tweaked the name a bit when they went from being a 
catalog-only business to having an actual store.  That certainly wouldn't 
be unheard of.  Businesses do change their names from time to time. 

----
Patricia Bullington-McGuire	<patricia at obscure.org>

The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered
three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the
purely hypothetical.  They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each
nonexisted in an entirely different way ... 
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"