Copyediting Errors - Listed?

[Mike]

No: HPFGUIDX 157199

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Kathryn Jones wrote:
>
> >  Mike wrote previously:
> 
> > So Diary!Tom knows about his father abandonning his mother, and 
> > Penseive!Tom found out this same thing (and got confirmation 
> > that  his father was a Muggle) just before he kills his father.  
> > Based on this evidence, it does appear that Tom killed his 
> > father *before* his fifth year.
<snipping myself, ouch!>
> 
> KJ writes:
> 
> While that is a logical assessment, it does not take into account 
> that Tom Riddle also knew about Harry surviving at Godric's 
> Hollow. He was very curious about how Harry survived, which again, 
> he would know nothing about as a sixteen year old memory.
<snipping KJ, no offense>

Mike now:

"'Well, you see, Ginny told me all about you, Harry,' said 
Riddle. 'Your whole *fascinating* history.'" (p.311, CoS, US) 
That's where Tom learned about Harry.

> KJ again:
> The thing that is interesting here is that the diary horcrux must  
> have been one of the first ones made and yet it has the memories  
> of a later date, which would indicate some kind of contact with  
> the main soul piece which we haven't seen in the ring horcrux.
<snip again, sorry>

Mike again:
While I'm not ready to rule out the possibility of Horcruxes trying 
to or managing to make contact with the *mother ship*, I am thinking 
that something would have to intervene to act as a catalyst to 
affect this connection. Had Diary!Tom come back to *life* by 
completing the process of sucking out Ginny's soul (or whatever he 
was doing), I am prepared to believe it could have accomplished a 
Psychic connection to Tom's home base. (Remind you of any other 
psychic connection in the series?)

> KJ again:
> So for this reason, I am more inclined to stay within the timeline 
> presented, that Tom actually killed his father and grandfather 
> after this date and before we saw him wearing the ring in 
> Slughorn's memory.

Mike again:
I'm a little unsure here. Does "timeline presented" mean as it is in 
canon? And which date is "after this date"? Sorry, I'm not following 
you.

I'm going to stick with my previous assertion, to wit:
> > But, more importantly, it's canon. And unless someone of 
> > authority tells us it was a mistake, we shouldn't be 
> > assuming it was, no matter how well the alternate version plays. 
> > I know JKR admits she's bad with math, and I agree she's no whiz 
> > with time lines either. But, unless she comes out with a 
> > correction, like she did with the GoF priori scene, we're stuck 
> > with canon.