GOF: US Murder vs UK Curse

[Shirley]

No: HPFGUIDX 88119

> Eloise wrote:
> <snip>
>  
> > GOF was published simultaneously in the US and in the UK, so
> manuscripts 
> > which still potentially contained errors and which needed final
> polishing were in 
> > the hands of both of publishers at the same time. We have an 
example
> of an 
> > authorial error treated differently by the respective publishers 
in
> the wand 
> > order mistake, which got through in first editions of both 
versions
> and which was 
> > subsequently corected by Bloomsbury but not (AFAIK) by Scholastic.
> >

Carol:
> I just checked my Scholastic edition, which I thought had been
> corrected. Nope. Harry's mother appears before his father in the
> Priori Incantatem scene (Am. paper back ed. 667). Does anyone know 
if
> there are differences between the American paperback and hardback
> editions? Maybe the error has been cleared up in the hardback? If 
not,
> someone should write to Scholastic about it--and about the
> murder/curse blunder, too. It never occurred to me that my own
> confusion over that scene resulted from an error in "translation"!
> Thanks to all involved for asking and answering that question.
> 
> Carol

now Shirley:
Yes, there are differences between the hardback and paperback 
editions of the American printing.  I have the original printing of 
GoF in hardback, and I bought the paperback 4-book set this summer 
(to carry around more easily as I re-read things).  The wand order 
has been "corrected" in the paperback version of GoF - that was one 
of the first things I looked at when I opened the set.

And I join with Carol in saying "thanks" to Steve for bringing that 
up again.  Even though I hadn't thought about that issue since I read 
it in another thread some time ago, it suddenly made sense this time 
(okay, okay, so I'm a little thick sometimes! ;-)).

Shirley, apologizing in advance if lots of other people answer 
Carol's question about the books