Who is it that Wormtail is supposed to murder, in GoF?

[Rebecca M]

No: HPFGUIDX 81565



> hg:
> It makes perfect sense if the words curse/disappeared are correct, 
> but just this past week I myself was agonizing over that passage, 
and 
> I have the American version, which is murder/death.
> 
> Who makes edits when it goes to American publishers?  


A likely scenario:  the manuscript goes to the English publisher and 
after initial edit goes to the Ameican publisher.  Amercian 
publisher starts going through it to needlessly and annoyingly de-
English it.  Meanwhile some editing continues in England, and any 
substantive edits are supposed to be passed on/coordinated with US.

JKR/editor realize reviewing the early chapter that it's 
inconsistent with the ending (since JKR has decided to keep Mad Eye 
around for the future, per interview).  Correction is made in 
English version but somehow doesn't get transferred to American 
version and American editor doesn't catch the inconsistency.

So the American would be the "original", but the English version 
would be consistent with the actual ending.

Rebecca
(and think how extra gruesome GOF ending would have been if JKR 
hadn't changed her mind and it was Moody's corpse they found in his 
locked trunk.)