[HPforGrownups] Re: Editorial input, was: Rowling's control, was Less than 1000 posts

[Sheryll Townsend]

No: HPFGUIDX 180365

> > Pippin Fowler:
> > I suppose we have 7 books because students attend
> Hogwarts for 7 years.
> > Yet events could have caused Hogwarts to close for
> a year, allowing at
> > least one more book. No telling how much external
> pressure was heaped
> > upon our author during the writing of the later
> books, but I'd guess it
> > was crushing at times. JKR mentions on her website
> that the mistake in
> > the order of the Priori Incantatem of Voldemort's
> wand was due to a
> > rushing editor's mistake that JKR didn't correct.
> 
> 
> montims:
> 
> Just to put the record straight, as I've seen this
> mentioned a few times now
> - this only happened in the American first edition
> of the book, not the UK
> version.
> 
Sheryll:

To correct the record further, this error was not only
in the first US edition. It was also in the first
Canadian edition.

*rummages about shelves for GoF* 

Yep, there it is. I thought the Canadian editions were
the same as the UK. They're definitely not the same as
the US versions.

Sheryll

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