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ponderous77

Snape: Taking Books, Taking Blame

Mar 03, 2007 16:10

Chapter 11: Quidditch. In which we learn the three-headed dog's name, that there are seven hundred way to commit a Quidditch foul, and that Snape is up to no good. Because he commits Quidditch fouls. For shame.

Let’s talk about Snape again. Indulge me for a moment and pretend that Half-Blood Prince hasn’t happened yet. Remember the Snape ( Read more... )

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Harry for What? anonymous March 4 2007, 04:37:09 UTC

Mom & I are reading the American version in which the sign held up in the stands says "Harry for President." What does it say in the British version? We must get hold of it for subsequent volumes -- what is the best way to do so?
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Re: Harry for What? ponderous77 March 4 2007, 05:17:32 UTC

That's a really good question and unfortunately I don't have a copy of Philosopher's Stone to check it out. I'm guessing the sign probably did say "Potter for President" for the alliteration alone.

Re: Harry for What? ponderous77 March 4 2007, 05:28:59 UTC

After a visit to my favorite resource, the Harry Potter Lexicon, where they have a complete list of UK/US differences for every book, I can say with some certainty that the phrasing on the sign was not changed between editions. So Potter for President!

Re: Harry for What? ponderous77 March 4 2007, 05:41:26 UTC

And for procuring British editions, maybe Europa Books carries them? Otherwise you'd probably have to do Amazon UK and fork over the extra shipping costs.

...I know we have the British version of Order of the Phoenix kicking around the house somewhere...

But really it's only the first book that has the dramatic edits from the original UK text. From Book 2 on, the changes have lessened as the franchise has exploded; Book 6 was virtually identical (except for the mysterious five lines of dialogue that appeared in the US edition alone -- we'll get to that when the time comes).

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Dumbledore card anonymous March 4 2007, 04:41:34 UTC

Why does Harry have to remember the Dumbledore card before Hermione can remember that she read Nicolas Flamel's name in a book?
Mom

Re: Dumbledore card ponderous77 March 4 2007, 05:23:06 UTC

Now this one I think I can answer. We don't know for a fact that Hermione read Flamel's name in that book. In fact, considering Hermione's basically photographic memory, I think it's doubtful she read the Flamel article before Harry remembered the Dumbledore card. More likely she checked the book out "for light reading" and never got to the relevant section. And because they didn't know the mysterious guarded object was related to alchemy, she never thought to check the book in the first place.

Now the real question is, did you remember that you had read Flamel's name before on the Chocolate Frog card, or were you fooled?

Re: Dumbledore card anonymous March 4 2007, 19:33:46 UTC

Dad remembered.

Re: Dumbledore card ponderous77 March 5 2007, 02:24:00 UTC

Well we were all there at The Sixth Sense. There's no fooling him!

anonymous March 4 2007, 10:47:15 UTC

"Anyone who confiscates Harry’s library books for no good reason is clearly Evil as Sin!"

HAHAHA THAT WOULD BE SO FUNNY except actually it's depressing. Remember how Harry wishes he even had a (Muggle) library card at all so he could get a little mail in one of the earlier chapters? SNAPE. CLEARLY. BAD.

ohmarianne March 4 2007, 10:49:43 UTC

IT'S ME DARLING. IS THE NEXT CHAPTER REALLY YOUR FAVORITE I DIDN'T KNOW THAT VERY EXCITED FOR THE NEXT SUMMARY LOVE ANNIE.

ponderous77 March 4 2007, 17:09:45 UTC

You're right, it's quite cruel to take books away from Harry. It's going to be done again and again too: in Chamber, Ginny steals the diary back from him, and in Prince, the threat of Snape confiscating the Half-Blood Prince's book makes Harry hide it -- not that he'd want it back after finding out the identity of the Prince...or would he?