Fake Wand = Fake Death

[saintbacchus]

No: HPFGUIDX 136809

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at a...> wrote:

<<
Can it be such an important comment if it doesn't appear in the
original script - which is how I would view the UK edition. Why was it
changed for the US editions?
>>

That is the question: why was it added? Just because the American
version contained a change doesn't mean that wasn't what Rowling
wanted all along. After all, it is the second printing of GoF - not
the first - that contains the correct order of phantoms appearing out
of Voldemort's wand.

Actually, the fact that the American version contains the line while
the original British edition does not suggests just the opposite to me
that it does to you: that Rowling (or somebody, but she seems to be
particular about what goes and stays) felt it was important enough to
add. Of course, we won't know for sure until book 7!