Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)/Barty Jr's motivations

[lyraofjordan]

No: HPFGUIDX 156107

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
>
> houyhnhnm wrote :
> 
> Not that I see the extent of the difference and learn that 
> it appears (based on only one example, I know) that the American 
> edition may be the only version containing the lines about 
> faking the Malfoys' deaths, the question becomes, "Why did 
> the editors of the American edition put them in?", not "Why 
> were they taken out?"
> 
> Did they simply feel they had to explain something that would 
> be self-evident to other readers or did they take it upon 
> themselves to interpret the text in a way that was contrary 
> to Rowling's intent?

Lyra:
Speaking as an editor, I can assure you that no editor would add 
that much to a work (especially to a major work that has made that 
editor's employer a bundle of cash and will be scrutinized by 
millions of readers) without running it by the 
original author. So, my guess is it was in the original manuscript. 
If not, JKR must have approved the addition at some point. 
 
(Is it Carol who is the book editor? Can you back me up on this?)