more differences was Re: Dumbledore + Draco

[Karen Barker]

No: HPFGUIDX 135521

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister" > 
> But Rachel, in message 134207, quotes the following....
> page 591-592 "He cannot kill you if you are already dead. Come    
> over to the right side, Draco, and we can hide you more completely 
> than you can  possibly imagine."
 
> ...which gave rise the whole thread, because the first sentence 
does not occur in the UK/Canadian editions.

Karen:
The plot thickens because further differences between the UK and US 
versions on the same topic have come to light:

> Tim Regan wrote:

>Here's what he says in the UK edition:

>"What is more, I can send members of the Order to your mother      
> tonight to hide her likewise. Your father is safe at the moment in 
> Azkaban ..."

> In the USA edition there are two addition sentences between those 
> two,

> Lynn:

> The two sentences in between are:

> "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 had captured and      
> killed your mother - it is what they would do themselves, after   
> all." (US p. 592)

Karen again:

At first I took this to be a small editorial error, but now I think 
there can be no doubt that JKR decided to remove all reference to 
the 'pretending someone's dead' plot but somehow it got left in the 
American edition.  I doubt very much that she will remain unaware of 
this debate and so I think we should watch her site carefully.  If 
no explaination is forthcoming I think we can assume that this is 
very very significant.   Who is really alive that we think is dead?  
Sirius?  She asks hopefully, but not really expectantly.  Nor 
Dumbledore I think.

Karen