Was US POA audio modified from UK or US print?

Geoff Bannister gbannister10 at aol.com
Wed Apr 7 19:31:17 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 95400

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

Carol:
> Geoff, it may help to know the context of the "bangs" reference in 
the
> U.S. edition of PoA (Scholastic ed. p. 39). It's on the page after 
the
> Daily Prophet article on Sirius Black in "The Knight Bus" and is 
part
> of a dialogue sequence between Harry and Stan Shunpike:
> 
> "Yeah," said Stan, still rubbing his chest. "Yeah, that's right. 
Very
> close to You-Know-'Oo, they say. Anyway, when little 'Arry Potter 
got
> the better of You-Know-'Oo--"
> 
> Harry nervously flattened down his bangs again.
> 
> "--all You-Know-Oo's supporters was tracked down, wasn't they, 
Ern? .
> . . ."
> 
> Does that help you locate the corresponding UK passage?

Geoff:
Ah yes, I've located the fringe benefits! It does say fringe - I 
missed it in the middle of all the dots and hyphens. (p.34 UK edition)

Trouble is, that at the back of my mind, I always associate "bangs" 
with "curls" - don't ask me why, it's something I must have picked up 
along the way years ago.





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