[HPforGrownups] Re: Ollivander / Fortescue / Krum's Crucio / Horcrux / Bk7 Opening

[Shelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 148273

>
> Exodusts wrote:
> The problem with this idea is that it still doesn't resolve the
> principal weakness with the DD-hides-Olivander theory. Here is the
> quote, from the American edition of HBP, that deals with DD's
> proposed methods of hiding:
>
> "He cannot kill you if you are already dead. Come over to the right
> side Draco, and we can hide you more completely than you can possibly
> imagine. What is more, I can send members of the Order to your mother
> tonight to hide her likewise. Nobody would be surprised that you had
> died in your attempt to kill me -- forgive me, but Lord Voldemort
> probably expects it. Nor would the Death Eaters be surprised that we
> had captured and killed your mother -- it is what they would do
> themselves, after all. Your father is safe at the moment in
> Azkaban...When the time comes we can protect him too."
>


Shelley: I was shocked when I read this-- I didn't remember the suggestion
that DD would fake the Malfoy's deaths AT ALL.  And sure enough, when I went
to my edition of HBP, this is * exactly* what I found:

'Come over to the right side, Draco, and we can hid you more completely than
you can possibly imagine.  What's more, I can send member sof the Order to
your mother tonight to hide her likewise.  Your father is safe at the moment
in Azkaban...when the time comes we can protect him too...come over to the
right side, Draco...you are not a killer...' (UK adult ed, 552-553)
[ellipses as in text]

Are the UK and American editions *that* different?


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