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

[Talisman]

No: HPFGUIDX 156119

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at ...>
wrote:
> I think the passage *must* have been in the original manuscript and
> that the British project editor...
> suggested that JKR herself tighten it. The American editor(s)
> apparently had no problem with it and let it go.


Earlier, houyhnhnm wondered:
>No[w] that I see the extent of the difference and learn 
>that it appears...that the American edition 
>may be the only version 
>containing the lines about faking the Malfoys' deaths, 
>the question becomes
...  
>Did they simply feel they had to explain something 
>that would be self-evident to other readers...


No doubt Rowling went the extra mile to "play fair" with us clueless
(but adorable) Yankee rabble.  

It seems she secretly likes us better, huh?

I mean, the experts have safely ruled out miscommunication and human
error.  

Yet the variant information involves a magnitude of novelty and
significance incompatible with the concept of mere "tightening." 

Surely, once alerted that her fly was down, Rowling would have zipped
it more than half-way up--even if the Colonists didn't "mind"--unless

 
Yep.  Simpletons or not, she obviously just likes us better.

Talisman, basking in the love.     

(Some jealous Bloomsbury whiner must have spoiled it for our paperback
edition.  Don't hate us.  We can't help it if we're beautiful.)