Dumbledore and Malfoy conversation

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 134324

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Richelle Votaw" <rvotaw at i...> 
wrote:
> > Geoff:
> > I'm sorry if I'm being thick but, in my UK copy (pp.552-553),
> > Dumbledore's comment begins with "Come over to the right side,
> > Draco...".
> >
> > It lacks your quoted first sentence which removes the point of 
your
> > theory....Can you point me to the "He cannot kill you if you are
> > already dead" quote, please?

Richelle:
> It's in the US edition, page 591-592.
> 
> Right after Malfoy says "Nobody can.  He told me to do it or he'll 
kill me. 
> I've got no choice."
> 
> The US edition has Dumbledore saying "He cannot kill you if you are 
already 
> dead."
> 
> After that it continues as the UK edition (I got mine today, so I 
can 
> compare) until "...likewise. Nobody would be surprised that you had 
died in 
> your attempt to kill me--forgive me, but Lord Voldemort probably 
expects it. 
> Nor would the Death Eaters be surprised that we captured and killed 
your 
> mother--it's what they would do themselves, after all."
> 
> After that it continues as the UK edition with "Your father is safe 
at the 
> moment..."

Geoff:
So why such a dramatic change?

This is Dumbledore expressing apparently totally different thoughts 
to the UK edition.

What's going on?

Ideas out there?