Question on SS/PS Chapter 7

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85988

--- 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


I've noticed it every time I've read that scene and can think of no
reasonable explanation for it. IMHO, it's a flint that should have
been caught and queried by the editor and/or proofreader.

Carol