The sorting of Dean Thomas

[jennivirides]

No: HPFGUIDX 58114

Annemehr wrote:

<< No creativity neccessary. Dean Thomas was inserted in the 
Scholastic version; he his completely absent from the sorting 
account 
in the UK editions. So it was a Scholastic editor who couldn't count 
in this case! >>

Catlady replied:

<So the Bloomsbury editor made a DIFFERENT mistake: Dean Thomas is 
one 
of Harry's roommates in the UK edition, so he SHOULD have been 
Sorted 
in alphabetical order.>

Delurking to say that actually it isn't a mistake in the Bloomsbury 
edition. In that edition, after Harry's own sorting he walks to the 
Gryffindor table, sits down, and starts observing the teachers. 
("Harry sat down opposite the ghost in the ruff...He could see the 
High Table properly now. At the end nearest him sat Hagrid...in the 
centre...sat Albus Dumbledore...Harry spotted Professor Quirrell, 
too..."etc.) It's not stated directly, but the implication is that 
more people are being sorted while he's doing this.

After all of this is the quote in question, "there were only three 
people left to be sorted" (Lisa Turpin, Ron, and Blaise Zabini). The 
Scolastic edition would be fine if only the the editor had inserted 
Dean before that quote, or changed the three to a four.

Re-lurking now.

Dessie, who didn't want the hardworking Bloomsbury editors to be 
thought badly of (yes, I know that's terrible grammar).