OOP: SPOILER: FLINT? (moved from OT)

[ewdotson]

No: HPFGUIDX 61428

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> wrote:
> > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "clio44a" <clio44a at y...> 
> > wrote:
> > > --- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "derannimer" 
> > > <susannahlm at y...> wrote:
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> > 
> > > 
> > > 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, p481 (British hardcover 
edition), 
> > the 
> > > Daily Prophet calls him Algernon Rookwood.
> > > 
> > 
> > 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.  ;)

> Really? 
> I just rechecked my book. The quote is on page 480 not 481 (British 
> version, but it really says that the caption underneath the picture 
> in the Daily Prohet is Algernon Rookwood.
> 
> How curious. Should the American editors be better than the British?


Well, if it was an editing mistake, I wouldn't expect it to be a case 
of the American editors being "bettter" than the British ones.  After 
all, not only is OOP is an awfully big book, but you'd have to been 
able to make the connection to the other books.  I can very easily 
see one editor's eyes sliding right over the name, while another 
thinks, "Hey, this isn't right.  *scribbles note on margin to ask JKR 
if Rookwood's first name is Algernon or not*"  Dollars to donughts 
there's at least one editorial oversite buried somewhere in the 
American version too.  :)

ewdotson