OOP: Rookwood

[clio44a]

No: HPFGUIDX 61417

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, eloiseherisson at a... wrote:

(Snip)

> 
> Part of the argument for the sexiness of the said Rookwood 
concerned his 
> distinguished name. But now I see in a report in the Daily Prophet 
(reproduced in 
> Chapter 25 of Ms Rowling's latest publication) that this same 
Rookwood, late 
> of the Department of Mysteries at the Ministry of Magic is not 
called Augustus 
> at all, but *Algernon*!
> 
> 

(Snip)

 
> Or perhaps this an example of the lamentable lack of accuracy in 
reporting 
> which seems to characterise the Daily Prophet? Have they confused 
Mr Rookwood 
> with someone else? Perhaps the herpetophile uncle of that 
unfortunate Longbottom 
> boy? Surely there were not *two* Rookwoods in the Department of 
Mysteries, 
> both passing ministry secrets to He Who Must Not Be Named? Are the 
Longbottoms, 
> that distinguished pure blood family actually related to a known 
Death Eater?
> 
> Or is this anomaly in fact a FLINT, plain and simple? 
> 
> I should be grateful for your attention in this matter.
> 
> Yours faithfully,
> 
> Eloise Herisson
> 



On the OT-Chatter list we were just starting a similar discussion, 
which I thought I should bring over to the main list.

Clio (that's me)wrote
> What strikes me as a flint is Mr. Rookwoods name. Don't know if 
> someone mentioned it already.
> 
> In GoF, The Pensieve, p641 (British paperback edition), Crouch 
calls 
> him Augustus Rookwood.
> 
> 
> OoP, Ch.25, The Beetle at bay, p480 (British hardcover edition), 
the 
> Daily Prophet calls him Algernon Rookwood.


ewdotson replied:
>For what it's worth, chapter 25, pg. 543 (US harcover addition) has 
>the Daily Prophet referring to him as Austustus Rookwood. I'm 
>inclined to suspect that if the British version refers to him as 
>Algernon, it's more likely a mistake in that version, but I've been 
>known to be wrong. Once or twice. ;)


Curious, isn't it. I thought the American and the British version 
would be the same this time. And also, if some attentive American 
editor found a mistake, wouldn't they tell Bloomsbury?

Clio