[HPforGrownups] Re: Prefects and points

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 106348

On 15 Jul 2004 at 8:56, niekycrins wrote:

> nieky replied:
> First, I am so sorry, I meant page 551 of OOTP, the new 2004 
> Bloomsbury pocket edition, they probably made a correction:
> "You can't take points from fellow prefects, Malfoy, said Ernie at 
> once. 'I know prefects can't dock points from each other', sneered 
> Malfoy. Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. 'But members of the 
> Inquisitorial Squad-'"

Thanks nieky,

That certainly does seem to be a correction. My copy which I got 
the day the book came out (Australian printing of the Bloomsbury) 
reads:

"'It's only teachers who can dock points from houses, Malfoy,' said 
Ernie at once.

'Yeah, we're prefects too, remember?' snarled Ron.

'I know prefects can't dock points, Weasel King,' sneered Malfoy. 
Crabbe and Goyle sniggered. 'But members of the Inquisitorial 
Squad-'"

This seems a fairly substantial change. If it's a correction, I'm 
surprised JKR didn't remember making it in replying on her page 
(unless someone made an unauthorised correction, or maybe there 
were enough corrections that she forgot about some). But it's not 
only a correction - they've taken out the insult 'Weasel King'.

Makes me wonder what else has been changed. I also wonder who makes 
the corrections - I'd like to think they are approved by JKR, but I 
would have expected a correction like this to stick in her head 
under normal circumstances - and her reply on her webpage would 
suggest it didn't.


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