"Never" - A Cursed Scar

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 96778

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "caesian" <caesian at y...> 
wrote:
> > Bonny:
> > > I always took that line in GoF - "You'll  forgive me, 
Dumbledore, 
> > > but I've heard of  a curse scar acting as an  alarm bell 
before..." 
> > > (GoF pg 613, canadian hardback) - to be a flint, that there 
should 
> > > have been a "never" in there, but I am  beginning to wonder. 
> 
> > Ceasian:
> > 
> > ... I wondered about the missing "never" too
> 
> 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> Has anyone ever check the various foriegn and domestic versions of 
the
> books to see it this has ever been corrected? 
> 
> The problem with the quote above is that the word 'never' has such a
> logical presents in Fudge's statement that I read the word even 
though
> it wasn't there. I wonder if the copy editors did the same thing?
> 
> That's one of the problems with trying to proofread my own work. I
> know so deeply and thoroughly what it is /suppose/ to say that 
that's
> what I read whether it is actually there or not.
> 
> As, I pointed out before, the word 'never' so needs to be there that
> my brain just placed it there. 
> 
> Just curious.
> 
> bboy_mn

See my post : 96289  VERY curious!! Re: Another curse scar? 
I've got the UK hard and soft covers and the US softcover, and UK 
version misses out the 'never' in both covers. US version has it in.
I don't know if anyone has any other translations, but I always read 
the sentence as having 'never' in.
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria