Nov. 3rd, 2008

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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.)

If this passage does, in fact, exist, I would like to use it in "Secrets" because it's an immensely useful bit of characterization... but I need the exact phrasing and timing to work with -- i.e., I need the text of the book from a couple paragraphs before the attempted hug through to a couple paragraphs after.

Does anyone have a copy of the British version, and if so, will you help me out?

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NaNo count: 1,300 words written, 48,700 to go. *sigh*
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)
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.)

If this passage does, in fact, exist, I would like to use it in "Secrets" because it's an immensely useful bit of characterization... but I need the exact phrasing and timing to work with -- i.e., I need the text of the book from a couple paragraphs before the attempted hug through to a couple paragraphs after.

Does anyone have a copy of the British version, and if so, will you help me out?

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NaNo count: 1,300 words written, 48,700 to go. *sigh*
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An interesting thing about writing a sort of parallel canon... )

('Watsonian' and 'Doylist' explanations are useful terms I encountered when reading [livejournal.com profile] selenak's journal. I had been using 'in-story' and 'out-of-story' to mean the same thing, but the Holmesian terminology is more elegant. *grin*)

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"Secrets" progress: ch. 12 rough draft (12,975 words); ch. 13 rough draft (1,975 words)

NaNo progress: 2,425 words written; 47,575 to go

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Election tomorrow. *bites nails*
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (Default)
An interesting thing about writing a sort of parallel canon... )

('Watsonian' and 'Doylist' explanations are useful terms I encountered when reading [livejournal.com profile] selenak's journal. I had been using 'in-story' and 'out-of-story' to mean the same thing, but the Holmesian terminology is more elegant. *grin*)

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"Secrets" progress: ch. 12 rough draft (12,975 words); ch. 13 rough draft (1,975 words)

NaNo progress: 2,425 words written; 47,575 to go

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Election tomorrow. *bites nails*

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