Copywrite Errors - Listed? (was:Voldemort killed personally?)

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 157205

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> Sorry for responding to my own post; but I just bought the paperback 
> copy of HBP. I checked, they didn't correct the "sixteenth year" 
> to "seventeenth year" or in any way. Is it too early after the 
> original publishing to expect corrections? Anyone? Anyone?<g>
> 
> Thanx,
> Mike
>
It's much too early for a revised edition of the books, which will be
a major project undertaken after all the books have been published and
somebody, possibly an assistant editor, compiles a list of all the
errors, possible errors, and inconsistencies in the books. Whether the
project would involve both Bloomsbury and Scholastic, I don't know. I
assume that it would.

In the meantime, JKR can specify corrections that she considers
important enough to include in new *printings* of the books (not the
same thing as new editions), such as the order of the wand echoes in
GoF, but it will be a long time before anyone corrects what they would
consider minor errors in continuity. 

It can't hurt to write to her or her editors at Scholastic or
Bloomsbury or post about it on a site that you know she reads. But
given all the other errors and inconsistencies (two hundred people in
the Slytherin section of the stadium in one Quidditch game when there
appear to be about 280 students in the whole school, to take one
example), I wouldn't expect the correction any time soon.

Carol, noting that some editions of "Huckleberry Finn" refer to Becky
Thatcher, a character from "Tom Sawyer," as Betsy Thatcher, and the
first American edition of "Moby-Dick" (on which other definitive
editions are based) refers to the second mate, Stubb, as the third mate