James or Lilly killed first? - differences in editions.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 97927

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

Carol:
> As I said in another post, there's another, smaller version of the
> flint still uncorrected in my Scholastic edition of GoF. When Harry 
is
> telling Sirius and Dumbldore about the events in the graveyard, his
> father is mentioned before his mother. I'd look up the page number,
> but it's 1:47 in the morning and besides, you have a different 
edition.

Geoff:

Just to complete the picture, when I wrote message 97773, I said.....

"When I went to look this up to answer your question, I realised for
the first time that I have both versions.

My hardback has the original version which reads as follows:

'The smoky shadow of a tall man with untidy hair fell to the ground
as Bertha had done, straightened up and looked at him.... and Harry,
his arms shaking madly now, looked back into the ghostly face of his
father.
"Your mother's coming," he said quietly.... "She wants to see you...
it will be all right.... hold on..."'

(GOF "Priori Incantatem" p.579 UK edition)

My paperback version, on the same page has:

'The smoky shadow of a young woman with long hair fell to the ground
as Bertha had done, straightened up and looked at him.... and Harry,
his arms shaking madly now, looked back into the ghostly face of his
mother.
"Your father's coming," she said quietly.... "He wants to see you...
it will be all right.... hold on..."'

Curiously, I must have bought an older copy of the hardback because I
bought the paperback (altered version) in November 2002 and the
hardback (original version) in October 2003 when I bought the 
hardbacks to match my OOTP on the bookshelf." (end of quote).

I now realise that, when I come to look at the later comments, both 
versions are the same(!). It reads:

'He tried to keep talking but the memories of what had come out of 
Voldemort's wand were flooding into his mind. He could see Cedric 
emerging, see he old man, Bertha Jorkins.... his mother..... his 
father....'

(GOF "The Parting of the Ways" p.605 UK edition)

This is the correct sequence to match the events in both books 
whereas one printing has the earlier description wrong.

The interesting question is, if both my UK editions have the correct 
order on p.605 despite having different orders on p.579 and yet the 
US Scholastic edition apparently is wrong in Carol's copy, did this 
Flint actually creep into UK editions?

Anybody got earlier UK editions to check?