Polyjuice Potions... Dead or alive?

[pegruppel]

No: HPFGUIDX 59305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/3/2003 8:19:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> pegruppel at y... writes:
> 
> > That brings me to my main point.  Was it Moody's death Voldemort 
was 
> > talking about when he said: "One more murder . . . my faithful 
> > servant at Hogwarts . . ." (GOF, American edition, p.12)?

> Sherrie wrote:
> Actually, JKR didn't write another murder in here - for some 
reason, 
> Scholastic changed the original wording.  (Being one who collects 
both UK & US 
> editions, this jumped out at me.)  In the UK edition, it refers 
to "one more obstacle 
> removed" - but nothing says that that removal is by death.  
> 
> This irks me...
> 
> Well, that irks me, too!  I thought that either the intent of the 
plan was to kill Moody, not imprison him.  That would, actually, have 
made for more interesting possibilities.  Geez.  It just proves my 
prejudice that copyeditors are some of the most dangerous people in 
the world.

Cheers!
Peg
> 
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