16 years 9wasRe: Copyediting Errors - Listed? (was:Voldemort killed personally?)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 157216


> Carol:
> Other examples, (snip)and Snape having taught for fourteen
> years at the beginning of OoP but having sixteen (should be fifteen)
> years worth of information on Dumbledore. (Of course, that one could
> be a slip on *Snape's* part that Bella didn't catch, but a copyediotr
> familiar with the books should at least have queried it. Maybe one did
> and JKR chose not to accept the correction, but I think it's an
> oversight and one more example of JKR's abysmal math skills. 


Potioncat:
I snipped everything except the Snape part because that's the part I'm 
addressing.

If Snape had been teaching 14 years in the fall during Umbridge. Then 
he had been teaching for 15 years the fall he was DADA. But we don't 
know that he wasn't already spying on DD before that. It seems he was 
spying on DD that autumn before Harry was born. So I think the 16 years 
of information on DD wasn't just while at Hogwarts.

I'm not sure which of us is correct, I'm just not convinced the 16 
years is an error.