Re: JKR’s giant mistake? (who says the name)

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117665


Neri , some time ago:

> Now, I always had the strong suspicion that Crouch!Moody 
using the V- word here is simply an editing mistake.
<massive snippage>
> No, they don't. All three of them use "Voldemort's".
> 
> Pettigrew: "If Voldemort's supporters were after me"
> 
> Crouch Sr: "you were caught passing information to Lord 
Voldemort's  supporters".
> 
> Crouch Jr: ""Voldemort's back, Harry?"
> 
> Now, I'm sure you can build a very interesting theory on this 
amazing  coincidence, but I have a horrible suspicion that the 
explanation is  rather mundane: JKR or one of her editors run a 
computerized search  over all occurrences of the word 
"Voldemort" in the manuscripts, when editing them, to make 
sure this word is not spoken by any character  who shouldn't 
speak it. Unfortunately they have the option "find  whole words 
only" checked, and so they miss the "Voldemort's" cases. 
>

Pippin:

Um,  I just did a simple check with the most commonly used 
word-processing program, and "find whole words only"  locates 
"Voldemort's" just fine.

Pippin