L.O.O.N.'s Unite - let's play the obsessive nitpicking game!!

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 173697

another LOON for me:

what is up with the US ed hardcover HBP passage of:

Dumbledore:
"I can help you, Draco"  
"No, you can't," said Malfoy, his want hand shaking very badly indeed.
 "Nobody can.  He told me to do it or he'll kill me.  I've got no choice."
"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
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.  Come over to
the right side, Draco...you are not a killer..."  pgs 591-592

The UK version & the paperback versions of HBP have this same passage as:

Dumbledore:
"I can help you, Draco"  
"No, you can't," said Malfoy, his want hand shaking very badly indeed.
 "Nobody can.  He told me to do it or he'll kill me.  I've got no choice."
"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 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 ed hardcover pg 552-553

So, my LOON is why was the passage included in the first place in the
US hardcover, yet not in the UK version nor the release of the US
paperback?  I had thought that the removal of those lines of:

"He cannot kill you if you are already dead."
and
"What is more, I can send members of the Order to your mother 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."

would be telling in DH - that *someone* that we thought was dead, like
Regulus (heeee, my favorite theory shot down in flames) was alive and
well.  Yet, as far as we know, nothing about a person who was thought
to be dead, but is really alive and being hidden by the Order.   Sigh.
 This passage held such high hopes for me :)

The second passage really shows that the Order would kill non-DE's -
Narcissa, as far as we know is not a DE, she is just married to one -
or at least the DE's *believe* that the Order is that ruthless.   
With the release of DH, we know now that Unforgivable Curses are
thrown about by the Order with no second thought.  With OotP, I had
thought that although the MoM had authorized the use of Unforgivables,
it was something that the Order *did* frown upon and with the HBP's
"The Flight of the Prince", Snape's advice to Harry about "no
Unforgivable Curses for you" seemed to be pointing in the direction
that the Unforgivables would not be used by Harry (at the very least).
 That the *goodies* would not stoop to the level of the baddies.

Nitpicky?  You bet I am ;)  I am a Virgo, afterall - LOL.

colebiancardi