Question on SS/PS Chapter 7

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 85990

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hickengruendler"
<hickengruendler at y...> wrote:
> --- 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

Maybe the American editor thought Dean should be mentioned and added
his name, but forgot to change "three" to "four"? Still, someone
should have caught it--JKR herself in page proofs if no one else.

Carol