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nah, i just read it yesterday--his father comes out first in the book (maybe not the movie?) and says "your mother is coming. She wants to see you"
Not in my copy it doesn't. You had me confused, so I looked it up before I posted.
Maybe the mistake was caught and fixed later?
"The smoky shadow of a young woman with long hair fell to the ground as Bertha had done, straightened up, and looked at him... and Harry, his arms shaking madly now, looked back into the ghostly face of his mother.
"Your father's coming..." she said quietly. "Hold on for your father... it will be all right... hold on...."
And he came... first his head, then his body... tall and untidy-haired like Harry, the smoky, shadowy form of James Potter blossomed from the end of Voldemort's wand, fell to the ground, and straightened like his wife." - 2002 paperback copy
What does yours say?
OMG!!! WEIRD! NO WAY!! lol that is awesome.. lets see..mine..JULY 2000 - HARDCOVER
"The smoky shadow of a tall man with untidy hair fell to the ground as Berthda had done. Straightend up and looked at him..and Harry, his arms shaking madly now looked back into the ghostly face of his father.
"your mother's coming" he said quietly. "she wants to see you..it will be alright.. hold on.."
"and she came..first her head, then her body.. a young woman with long ahir, the smoky, shadowy form of lily potter blossomed from the end of Voldermort's wand, fell to the ground and straightened like her husband.. page 667 in my hardcover book
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so its basically the same text with the parent swapped--crazy XD
That's got to be it then. I know some other book I own has a note in the beginning saying that certain mistakes had been corrected in that edition, but they apparently didn't bother here. Silly editors, confusing us!
Thats so cool! I've seen little mistakes in books before but I never heard of newer versions with corrections. Lol wow..i should take extra care of my old messed up copy!
It's actually called the "Wand Order Mistake" (Google it if you want to
smile ). JKR got the order wrong in the first edition of Goblet of Fire and is was edited for the second edition, I think. You must have a First Edition if James got out of Voldermort's wand first, rather than Lily
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On her website, JKR posted that as a question- what the order should be.
She answered that she made a mistake, and the order would be corrected in later editions.
Which it was.
Lots of authors do that, and most of the time it isn't caught.
Robert Jordan's incredible Wheel of Time series is far deeper, and far more interesting to sleuth.
(I got into HP while waiting for the next WoT book.) RJ made a few mistakes among all the
text in his series, and corrected them in later editions.
I know that because I've actually worn out earlier copies and bought later ones, and seen
text change.
(Example: end of Book 1, we see someone sharpening his sword.
Early in Book 2, we find out his sword is unbreakable-and will never get dull.
He explains about that, and mentions people with such swords have disbelieved it and
tried to sharpen them, and only wore down their sharpeners.
Later editions of Book 1 has him sharpening his belt-knife instead.
Before that, my only answer was a guess he had a nervous habit of sharpening.)