Significance of missing line (was: HBP paperback)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 156114

Carol:
> As for the character who comes back from the dead ... my bet is 
> Emmeline Vance. Why? Because if her survival is linked to Snape, 
> who faked her death using the Draught of Living Death and some 
> spell disguised as an AK, she could provide the first hint that 
> he's on the side of Good. 

SSSusan:
*That* is the one thing that could make her candidacy a solid one, 
imo.  Otherwise, she doesn't seem important enough to what remains 
to be done.


Carol:
> ...here's the Lexicon's version of the differences between
> the American and British editions of DD's speech to Draco (the
> so-called missing line that began this thread):
> 
> British edition, 552-553: '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. <snip>

> American edition, 591-592: "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. 
> <snip>

SSSusan:
Good gravy.  Reading this again, I'm surprised it wasn't the "Come 
over to the right side, Draco" portion that she had removed, or at 
least changed, from the paperback edition. That's just so incredibly 
Star Wars-sounding!

What I find intriguing is this other *extra* portion in the American 
edition that is missing from the British (if I'm reading the Lexicon 
summaries correctly):

> 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. 

SSSusan:
I wonder why, that?


> Carol, agreeing with SSS that all this speculation is in the 
> spirit of fun....

SSSusan:
Goodie.  Thanks!

Siriusly Snapey Susan, 
off to watch the Cubs at Wrigley tomorrow!