E-mail from Scholastic - US vs UK version

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No: HPFGUIDX 135576

Allie now:

The US version says what??  My version, purchased in good old NYC, 
does not say sneakers!  It took several references to "trainers" 
before I realized what they were (I was thinking underwear!).


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Karen Barker" 
<karenabarker at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tonks" <tonks_op at y...> 
wrote:
> > Auror Tonks on special assignment reporting in:
> > 
> > I wrote to a customer care person at Scholastic regarding the 
extra 
> > line ("He can't kill you if you are already dead.") in the US 
> > version of the books. She did not answer my question fully, 
which is 
> > par for the course with customer care people, <snip the whole 
> response>
> 
> Well done for trying Tonks!  IMO their answer does not answer your 
> question at all.  It is an answer to a "Why does the British 
version 
> say 'Trainers' when the US version says 'Sneekers'?" sort of 
question 
> not "Why are there 2 additional references in the US version 
(there is 
> a second one that's been discovered too) to pretending someone is 
dead 
> when there are no references whatsoever to this in the UK version" 
> sort of question!
> 
> Karen