Re: Snape evil or not... proof. (SPOILER!)

nystulc@xxxxxx wrote: 
Jan van Aalderen wrote:

nystulc@xxxxxx wrote:

Jan van Aalderen wrote:


So far there is no evidence which version is what JKR wrote
originally.  In fact, neither might be unchanged.


Dude, the two versions are different, and the only difference
is a bunch of extra words.  Somewhere along the line either
words got put in, or words got taken out.  I don't know what
you mean by "neither might be unchanged."

I usually mean exactly what I say. 


Well, let me try to figure out what you mean, and maybe you can help
me.  I will start be eliminating the double-negative, and presume that
you mean "Both might be changed."  My next question is "Changed from
what?"  I assume, of course, that both versions are different from some
previous draft.  But ... duh!  Of course!  There must have been a time
when she had not even written this passage yet.  Surely that is not
what you meant.  Or perhaps you mean (based on what you wrote below)
that both were changed BY EDITORS from JKR's "original".  But that was
hardly obvious.  It is also very silly.


Hence, "might be". The theoretical possibility exists.

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