HPL: Edits and Changes - Chamber of Secrets

The corrections listed below were released as a master correction list in 2004. The list was released by Bloomsbury and all changes apply to the text of the UK/Raincoast editions. Some of the corrections had already been made in the original US versions. All of these changes have been included in the new Raincoast and Bloomsbury adult editions released in the summer of 2004. As of this writing (spring, 2005), Scholastic has not released updated versions of the books. Changes listed here shall be considered official canon.


edition and page	original version	edited version	reason for the change
UK p28, line 5	were	was	Typographical error (grammar).
UK p28, 8 lines from bottom	Artifacts	Artefacts	In this instance, the U.K. edition had used the U.S. spelling rather than the U.K. spelling.
UK p29, line 2	beserk	berserk	Typographical error (spelling).
UK p31, last line	George	Fred
UK p32, line 6	Fred	George
UK p32, line 14	Geoge	George	Typographical error (spelling).
UK p40, line 13	wizard's	wizards'
UK p77, line 24	Honourary	Honorary
UK p78/US p99	"And a few of you need to read Weekend With A Werewolf more carefully--"	"And a few of you need to read Wanderings With Werewolves more carefully--"	This is an error in the UK version of the book. The title of the book given elsewhere is Wanderings With Werewolves.
UK p88/US p115 UK p91/US p116	"He's the only man for the job," said Hagrid, offering them a plate of treacle fudge... Hagrid's treacle fudge had cemented his jaws together.	"He's the only man for the job," said Hagrid, offering them a plate of treacle toffee... Hagrid's treacle toffee had cemented his jaws together.	Toffee, much more than fudge, has a sticky consistency. It would appear that Hagrid's version of this toffee is particularly dangerous.
UK p90, 11 lines from bottom	Hagid	Hagrid	Typographical error (spelling).
UK p98, paragraph 4, line 6	envelope. Harry	envelope, Harry	Typographical error.
UK p102, line 12	though	through	Typographical error.
UK p110, line 9	Madam Sprout	Professor Sprout
UK p115, line 12	can only opened	can only be opened
UK p125, 9 lines from bottom	checking the coast	checking that the coast
UK p128, line 12 (CS10)		Delete said Harry insert full stop after sleeve and remove end quote mark.
UK p140, 8 lines from bottom	Draft	Draught	Typographical error (the U.K. edition was using the U.S. spelling).
UK p161, line 3	Crabbe,	Crabbe -	Typographical error (punctuation).
UK p170, 2 lines from bottom	Honourary	Honorary
UK p176, line 7	became	become
UK p180, 8 lines from bottom	miniscule	minuscule
UK p187, line 2	than the study	Study
UK p189, 12 lines from bottom	releasd	released
UK p190/US p257	Madam Pomfrey was bending over a fifth-year girl with long, curly hair.	Madam Pomfrey was bending over a sixth-year girl with long, curly hair.	This slight change puts Penelope Clearwater in the same year as Percy Weasley, her boyfriend.
UK p199, 6 lines from bottom	Professor Snape	Professor Sprout
UK p203, line 10	heard. Fang!'	heard Fang!'
UK p211, line 3	as though he'd been just been	as though he'd just been
UK p216, paragraph 2		Amend first sentence to 'The Basilisk flees only from the crowing of the rooster, which is fatal to it!' and amend the last line of the paragraph to: Spiders flee before the Basilisk!
UK p220/US p297	"...And the witch who banished the Bandon Banshee had a harelip. I mean, come on--"	"...And the witch who banished the Bandon Banshee had a hairy chin. I mean, come on--"	The reference to "harelip" spoken in such derogatory fashion, even by a villain like Lockhart, is rather insensitive. I suppose that women with hairy chins might be offended by the new version, but apparently this wasn't deemed as likely to be a problem.
UK p239, 7 lines from bottom	floor	bathroom
UK p245/US p332	"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore calmly, "because Lord Voldemort -- who is the last remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin -- can speak Parseltongue..."	"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore calmly, "because Lord Voldemort -- who is the last remaining descendant of Salazar Slytherin -- can speak Parseltongue..."	Oh, the troubles this mistake has caused. Rowling compounded the confusion when she was asked about this in an interview and she called it a "deliberate error," whatever that was supposed to mean. Now we know...it's officially supposed to read "descendant." There go ten or twelve really clever fan theories right out the window.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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