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edenfalling

HP canon research help request!

Nov 03, 2008 00:10

I have a dim memory that someone once told me that in the British version of CoS, sometime between Harry and Ginny's exit from the Chamber and everyone's arrival at Dumbledore's office -- i.e., near the end of chapter 17 -- Ron attempts to hug Ginny and she rebuffs him. No such action occurs in the American version. (Trust me, I've checked ( Read more... )

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chrissysparkle November 3 2008, 07:56:02 UTC

No, no such attempted hug. The only bit that's even vaguely similar is when Ron attempts a fairly immature joke about Moaning Myrtle being 'fond' of Harry, after she says she would have shared her toilet with him, and Ginny simply keeps crying...sorry I couldn't help more!

lurker_lost November 3 2008, 13:07:47 UTC

I got an Australian version (a very old copy, Bloomsbury edition, 1998). I've bolded the relevant part for you, as well. =D

Then came a faint moan from the end of the chamber. Ginny was stirring. As Harry hurried towards her, she sat up. Her bemused eyes travelled from the huge form of the dead Basilisk, over Harry, in his blood-soaked robes, then to the diary in his hand. She drew a great, shuddering gasp and tears began to pour down her face.
"Harry - oh, Harry - I tried to tel you at b-breakfast, but I c-couldn't say it in front of Percy. It was me, Harry - but I - I s-swear I didn't mean to - R-Riddle made me, he t-took me over - and - how did you kill that - that thing? W-where's Riddle? The last thing I r-rememberm is him coming out of the diary -"
It's all right," said Harry, holding up the diary, and showing Ginny the fang hole, "Riddle's finished. Look! Him and the Basilisk. C'mon, Ginny, let's get out of here ( ... )

erised1810 November 3 2008, 18:13:36 UTC

eh? this is...weird. did this happen more often, leavign sentences out of the us editions? because this version gives a bit more character and edge tothings. blah. was gof a simultaneous one? i should look that up sometiem because I completely forgot. and i got us editiosn mostl ybecause i thought i'd be readignamerican english but for the rest they would be verbatim. strange...

edenfalling November 4 2008, 03:39:58 UTC

That is really weird. My version goes like this:

"Ron!" Harry yelled, speeding up. "Ginny's okay! I've got her!"

He heard Ron give a strangled cheer, and they turned the next bend to see his eager face staring through the sizable gap he had managed to make in the rock fall.

"Ginny!" Ron thrust an arm through the gap in the rock to pull her through first. "You're alive! I don't believe it! What happened? How -- what -- where did that bird come from?"

Fawkes had swooped through the gap after Ginny.

"He's Dumbledore's," said Harry, squeezing through himself.

"How come you've got a sword?" said Ron, gaping at the glittering weapon in Harry's hand.

"I'll explain when we get out of here," said Harry with a sideways glance at Ginny, who was crying harder than ever.After that, the text seems to be the same again. And aside from changing the first 'OK' to 'okay,' the revisions make no sense to me. (Well, adding in a line about Ginny crying is fine, but I cannot for the life of me figure out why deleting the attempted hug ( ... )