UK vs US

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 170407

Brenda:
> I am new to the whole chat room, posting stuff, but I was wondering:
>  How different is the UK version of HP versus the US version?  I live
> in the US, and only have the US version.  I don't even know where to
> go to get the UK version.  Am I missing a lot by reading the US
> version and not the UK version?  I've been reading the posting on this
> site and notice often how the UK version seems to explain more.  Is
> that true?

Pippin:
You can order the British editions from amazon.co.uk or the 
Canadian Raincoast edition which has the same text as the British one
from amazon.ca. Both are available in children's or adult versions,
but there's no difference except for the cover design. 

If you just want to check out the differences between these and the
Scholastic edition, there's a list at the Harry Potter Lexicon. 

The changes are usually minor variations in usage or slang. However,
the US editions are slightly and perhaps significantly different in some
cases where it seems as though corrections were made so late in
the publishing process that the British text got them and the US
text didn't. The US edition of GoF has Wormtail and Voldemort
discussing a murder which in the British edition becomes a curse.

The US edition of HBP originally had Dumbledore telling Draco
that the Order would be able to convince Voldemort that both
he and his mother were dead. These lines were omitted in the
British text. Now, according to the lexicon, current US editions
have been changed to match the British version. 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/
http://amazon.ca/
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/

Pippin