As a special bonus to her readers, señora Rowson touched up some of the “book mistakes” in her translation.

Okay, yes, and for about two chapters right in the middle of the book, I tried looking up the words I didn’t know on an on-line Spanish-English dictionary, but that slowed me down so much that I stopped doing it. The only editions not printed in Spain were printed in Argentina (at least that I’ve seen so far), so no help finding different distribution centres there.

Below, I’ll explain how I came to my conclusions, provide a lot of detail what kind of variations exist and tell you how you can determine what regions your own editions belong to. En este segundo año, de vuelta en el Colegio Hogwarts de Magia y Hechicería, Harry escucha unos extraños ecos de susurros en los pasillos vacíos, y es así como los ataques empiezan. Although, to be honest, I’m a little terrified to start looking at variations between editions in all the languages because chances are this is common. Her headmaster at St Michael's, Alfred Dunn, has been suggested as the inspiration for the Harry Potter headmaster Albus Dumbledore.

It’s also weird to me that they don’t actually mark these things more clearly… like why wouldn’t you tell people what it is and just let them decide what version they want? I have a copy with ISBN 978-84-7888-654-8, but with the criteria you listed in the article, it’s definitely Latin America and not Southern Cone. Anticipating that the target audience of young boys might not want to read a book written by a woman, her publishers demanded that she use two initials, rather than her full name. El verano de Harry Potter ha incluido el peor cumpleaños de su vida, unos presagios muy poco halagüeños por parte de un elfo doméstico llamado Dobby y ser rescatado de casa de los Dursleys por su amigo Ron Weasley en un coche mágico volador.

I’m finding sets that say they’re the Spain version but I’m having trouble finding a book set that is definitively the Latin American edition. Pero quizás lo más aterrador de todo es que los Dementores patrullan los terrenos de la escuela, con su beso que succiona el alma. Even though a European Spanish library edition came out in 1999 and public regionalized versions appeared in the same year (2000) that this edition was still being produced.