Chamber of Secrets - The Unexplained

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 108895

Geoff said (about ancestor/descendant):
> > I'm  quite sure that I have seen it mentioned on the group more 
> > than once that it /has/ been acknowledged as a flint.
> > 
> > Certainly, my UK edition (also p.245) has "descendant".

And Pat replied:
> 
> It depends which version you are reading.  In my hard back, it says 
> ancestor.  In the paperback, which naturally came out later, it was 
> descendent.  But then, I think I read somewhere that JKR said that 
> she had intentionally used "ancestor".  This one has always puzzled 
> me, and I still don't know.  Perhaps I should go to the book store 
> and look for a newer version than either of mine, and see which way 
> it is written.  I'll let you know.

YTb thinks:
I find the "Oops!" theory a little hard to swallow. Seems like JK 
wouldn't slip like that. */Supposedly/* it was an "accidently on 
purpose" thing, and it was corrected, but some later versions "un-
corrected" it. I suppose if we don't get anything about it in the 
next two books, we'll have to write it off as a FLINT, but I think 
there's a little more to it than "Oops!"

~Yb