Half Blood Prince - Hardback [No Spoilers]

zoro

As I'm in Canada at the moment, I have the US/Canadian version of this book and I'm not sure if it's identical to the European one or not.

Also, I thought that this deserved it's own thread





Between pages 320 and 321, the chapter: A Very Frosty Christmas
If you stretch apart the 2 halves of the book from each other slightly, you'll notice some writing going up the page, near the top of page 321

It says:

Believe-Children Can.---11 Of 19

That's an exact duplication of it, including the punctuation marks.
Has anyone seen this before or know what it means??

zoro

I've just had a thought:

"Can." - instead of being "can" with a full stop.
It could be an abbreviation of "Canada" or "Canadian" ... as in, edition.

Hmmm

Bamboozled

I've a hard back of HP and the HBP. It was bought in Ireland. I jsut looked at what pages you were on about.... and i havent a clue where you're on about.

If you stretch apart the 2 halves of the book from each other slightly, you'll notice some writing going up the page, near the top of page 321

Is that on the left of the page 321?

Sleepy

Nope not in the UK edition

zoro

I'll take some pictures of it later and upload them

Bamboozled

Yes, do please - just so i can try figure this out.
Tired.. done too much reading.. brain cant function

zoro

OverView
Zoomed

There you go

*Angel*

huh... weird

zoro

Same thing I thought
And the lord of all search engines (google) hasn't shown squat about it either

Bamboozled

Very strange! No there's nothing in my book.

Seeing as its 11 of 19, have you checked the book for others??

zoro

Yeah I have, but not very hard - I'll have another look.

Haven't got a fecking clue as to what it could be!

Cathy

"Children" is probably referring to the kind of book it is. I'd say it's just some sort of publisher's mark.

0utshined

The Canadian publishers used post-consumer recycled paper for their print run so that's probably what caused this. Link

Bamboozled

Thats quite interesting 0utshined. Thanks for the link.

zoro

ooh nice - well done

0utshined

np,

It would have been more fun if there was a hidden meaning but there you go.

Bamboozled

She might find more and we can read more into it if there is.

Draupnir

i think Zoro is a bloke, arent ya Dan? Or have you been hiding it all these years?

zoro

Well the last time I checked I was a guy, so lets hope it hasn't fallen off

Bamboozled

My sincere apologies sir.

zoro

Bamboozled

So did you find any more?

zoro

nope - but i didnt look yet either, so maybe that's why

I'm on a long haul flight home next week, i'll have a proper look then

Tenshot

Books are usually produced by printing the pages on a large sheet, which is then folded several times to make a "gathering"; typically you'll get 16 or 32 pages per gathering, and several gatherings are stitched or glued together to make the book.

The new book has 608 pages in the Canadian edition; 608 / 19 = 32. So, you have found the 11th gathering of 19. You will probably find similar marks if you jump forward and back 32 pages at a time.

zoro

+ and - 32 pages ... nothing

Next??

Bamboozled

I'm still curious though