Rosier, Rookwood, Snape's gang of Slytherins

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 144682

> Elyse wrote:
> >
> > 
> > And as a side note is Rookwood's name Augustus or Algernon?
> > He is referred to as Augustus in GoF, but in the Daily Prophet, 
it 
> > is Algernon Rookwood. Siblings, or the same man? Or a FLINT?
> 
> Carol respondsed:
> Hi, Elyse. I'm behind on posting, so your Rookwood question may
> already have been answered (I found only one response, which 
guessed
> that "Algernon" was a Daily Prophet error), but in fact "Algernon
> Rookwood" is an error that occurs only in the British first 
edition. 
> http://www.hp-lexicon.org/wizards/a-z/r.html
> The American editions have "Augustus" consistently, and presumably 
the
> error was caught and corrected in the later British editions as 
well.
> Why Augustus rather than Algernon? Probably because we already 
have an
> Algernon: Neville's Uncle Algie.
> 
Lyra:
I don't usually put much stock in Galadriel Waters (New Clues to HP 
Book 5), but in this case she says the name was changed by U.S. 
editors because it was too reminiscent of "Algernon Blackwood" who 
was a writer of fantasy/horror books, including one called "Dudley 
and Gilderoy" and another called "The Centaur."