Question on SS/PS Chapter 7

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 85696

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "KathyK" <zanelupin at y...> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> My bleary eyes can take no more searching through old posts to see 
> if this has been brought up before, so I'm going to just ask you 
all.
> 
> On p 122 of the US Paperback Edition of SS:
> 
> "And now there were only three people left to be sorted."
> 
> *****
> Dean Thomas and Lisa Turpin are sorted after this statement.  Next 
> Ron becomes a Gryffindor.  And *then* Blaise Zabini becomes a 
> Slytherin.  
> 
> If I'm not mistaken that's four, not three.
> 
> Is this a Flint, or maybe it was meant to say there were three left 
> other than Ron to be sorted?  Maybe no one matters to Harry after 
> Ron, so Blaise Zabini doesn't count?
> 
> I know it's a minor point, but there it is,
> 
> KathyK, who needs to stop staring at her computer screen now

In the british edition Dean wasn't mentioned. That was changed for 
the American. I think this was a Flint from the American editor, 
because if you look closely, there weren't three people left after 
Harry's sorting, but three people after Harry spoke with Percy. That 
means Dean was sorted before Lisa Turpin, and wasn't mentioned (like 
Crabbe and Goyle)

Hickengruendler