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Originally Posted by Yapyap
I do have a 1998 paperback of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (in other words, the US edition), but without knowing where to look for, it's rather more difficult to do a comprehensive search in a paper book than in an ebook.
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Here's the edition that is sold by the Yale University Bookstore:
Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone
Surely someone on MR has an electronic copy of that edition and can search for the phrase.
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That's true to an extent - and I do believe there's a limit to how much of a writer's style and choice of words the editing process should change. However, repeated clichés (and other similar issues of accidental repetition) are, I think, one of the things that should need to be pointed out during the editing process. . . . I rather doubt there's any author producing an entire book of "perfect" prose - style, grammar, syntax, spelling - completely on her or his own, so I'm never quite happy about having some (heavily-edited) authors praised on their technical writing skills while others are criticised just because they had less luck with the editing.
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In my experience, you seem to underestimate the perfectionism of certain writers. Virginia Woolf, who was certainly prolific, subjected virtually everything she wrote to myriad revisions, and she and her husband sometimes published her books, did they not? I personally am far from prolific, but every story I write goes through twenty to thirty drafts.
There's more to say regarding your comments, but I've just been reminded I'm part of a reading that I'd actually forgotten would take place in NYC in the early evening. The venue is a 2.5-hour bus and subway trip away from where I now live, so I'll have to return to this conversation afterward.