[HPforGrownups] Book Differences

[Jeremiah LaFleur]

No: HPFGUIDX 163636

Jeremiah:

Story line: No. No differences.(I have both the US and UK Hardcovers)
Wording, scentence structure and phrasing? Oh yeah... at least, up until
HBP. Scholastic (the US Publisher) had lots of letters "correcting" the
improper grammar in the book. LOL. It was UK English and that differs
slightly from US English.

The biggest changes, however, can be seen between the hardcover editions and
the paperback. The most glaring is GoF. In the hardcover James comes out of
Voldemort's wand first and Lilly second. That would mean that Lilly died
first and James died second (Oh, the conspiracy theories i had in my head!)
Then the paperbacks came out and I got into an argument with another fan
who'd read the paperbacks... What a messed up converstaion that was. The
paperback had chaged/corrected the event and Lilly came out first and James
second thereby placing their deaths the other way around (meaning, the
hardcover has Harry's recolection of theor deaths as incorrect but the
paperback changes that so Harry's recolections are, indeed, correct).

Otherwise the changes are minimal between the 2 versions (UK & US). I think
there may be mention of a character or two in the UK vesions that are not in
the US editions but I don't think that changes any of the storylines.

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On 1/9/07, irishred9scorpio <IrishScorpion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   Does anyone know if there are any major or minor changes between the US
> and UK version of the books?
>
> The reason im asking is because with the James Bond novels there are
> many changes by the time it hit the US shelves.
>
> Thank you.
>
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>
> Robert Emmett Stephen Doyle IX
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