Survival of AK

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 113919

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "stbjohn2" <stbjohn2 at y...> 
wrote> 

Sandy:
> The U.S. version says:
> "You all know that on the night I lost my powers and my body, I 
tried 
> to kill him. His mother died in the attempt to save him -- and 
> unwittingly provided him with a protection I admit I had not 
> foreseen... I could not touch the boy."
> "His mother left upon him the traces of her sacrifice... This is 
old 
> magic, I should have remembered it, I was foolish to overlook it... 
> but no matter, I can touch him now."
> "I miscalculated, my friends, I admit it. My curse was deflected by 
> the woman's foolish sacrifice, and it rebounded upon myself."
> 


Geoff:
The Bloomsbury UK edition is the same, except that the final phrase, 
more grammatically correct (at least for UK English), is rendered 
as "rebounded on me".