PoA CH 1-3 post DH look

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181382

Geoff wrote:
> > Alla, if you will permit me the privilege of disagreeing with 
you, your quote is wrong. It should be:
> > 
> > It was nearly midnight, and he was lying on his stomach in bed,
<snip> a large leather-bound book 
> > (A History of Magic by Adalbert Waffling) propped open against the
pillow. {POA "Owl Post" p.7 UK edition)
> >
> 
> Alla:
><snip>
> But this time if anybody is wrong is whoever printed my book :-)
> 
> Accidentally the page 1 of my amer. edition of PoA says the same 
> thing.
> 
> Or am I missing something and you are joking? :-)
>
Carol responds:
Woohoo! Score one point for the American consistency editor, who
caught a Flint-in-the-making that the British editor missed.

Compare the list of required books for new Hogwarts students in SS/PS:

COURSE BOOKS
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
The Standard Book of Spells (Grade 1) by Miranda Goshawk
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Magical Theory by Adelbert Waffling. . . . (SS 66)

So good old Bathilda *is* the author of "A History of Magic" (is that
also mentioned in DH?) and Adelbert Waffling is, most appropriately,
the author of a book on magical theory (which I take it the students
are expected to use in researching essays for their various classes
and in preparing for the theoretical portions of the OWLs and NEWTs
since there's no specific course in Magical Theory.

Carol, who likes JKR's odd sense of humor as reflected in the author's
names, especially Arsenius Jigger and Adelbert Waffling