Another silly question

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 187233

---  "zanooda2" <zanooda2 at ...> wrote:
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> ---  "Geoff Bannister" <gbannister10@> wrote:
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> > In the UK original, the bathroom is on the second floor as 
> > was the attack. 
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> zanooda:
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> I still think there is some discrepancy here, because the first time Myrtle's bathroom ever mentioned ("The Deathday Party"), it is on the first floor: "'She haunts the girls' toilet on the first floor', said Hermione"(p.101 Br.ed.).
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bboyminn:

I think JKR has admitted to this mistake several times. It is clear that Moaning Myrtle's bathroom has been on several different floors at one time or another. 

Though, we must acknowledge the difference in floor numbering between the UK and USA. Our First Floor is the UK Ground Floor, and since the ground floor is already names, the floor above it would be the First Floor. However, in the USA, the ground floor is designated as the first floor making the UK first floor our second floor. 

So, it could have been confusion among the many editors. Or it could have been confusion on JKR's part. 

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn