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

Eddie harryp at stararcher.com
Wed Aug 23 19:23:41 UTC 2006


No: HPFGUIDX 157358

> > Carol wrote:
> > 
> > Another continuity error that jumps out at me, even though no one else
> > seems to care about it, is Ron's reference, months before Draco lets
> > the DEs into Hogwarts, to "Malfoy's Hand of Glory." How did Ron know
> > about that?  [... snippage ...]
>
> Ken:
> I've been bothered by it to the extent that I have been trying without
> success to find the earlier reference where Draco brags about getting
> his Hand of Glory. It's nice to know that other's can't find such a
> reference either.

Eddie:
The logical place/time for Draco to have acquired the HoG was when he
was in B&B in the beginning of HBP, trying to get the 2nd cabinet
fixed.  HRH would have learned about Draco's acquisition of the HoG
then.  Harry would have known what it was from when he was hiding in
the cabinet and Draco took an interest in it (the HoG) in CoS (or was
it PS/SS?).

Since that's the place/time that makes the most sense to me, I can
only assume that these details were lost to JKR's self-editing or
later copyediting errors.  Too bad JKR/Bloomsbury/Scholastic didn't
ask me.  :-)

Eddie








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