[HPforGrownups] Re: Curse Scars

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 109917


--- Cathy Drolet <cldrolet at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Snow:
> The quote in question is in GOF The Parting of the Ways U.S
> edition:
> 
> "You'll forgive me, Dumbledore, but I've never heard of a curse
> scar acting as an alarm bell before..."<<<
> 
> DuffyPoo replyed:
> "Snow, does your book really say "but I've *never* heard of a curse
> scar?" Both of mine, Canadian HB and PB published in 2000 say
> "You'll forgive me,
> Dumbledore, but I've [I have] heard of a curse scar acting as an
> alarm bell before."  
> If there is a correction is a subsequent publication to what I have
> then it all makes sense."
> 
> 
> DuffyPoo again:
> FYI, the Canadian books are published by Raincoast Books in
> Vancouver and the British by Bloomsbury Publishing in London.  I
> don't know if Raincoast is the Canadian subsidiary of Bloomsbury or
> what, I've just always been led to believe that the UK and Canadian
> editions are exactly the same.  The OotP paperback I bought Tuesday
> has the 'Prefects can't dock house points from other Prefects'
> change that was noted by someone in the UK a few weeks ago.


Raincoast is a separate Canadian publishing house that hit the
jackpot when it got chosen to print the Potter books in Canada.  It
prints the UK version word for word.  This dispute over the word
"never" came up somewhere and JKR acknowledged that it was a mistake
and that it should read "never heard of...".  

Now if you challenge me to say where she said it, I couldn't tell
you.  It was an interview I read and I don't read many of them. 
Sorry.

Magda


		
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