The resolution's sponsor, Representative Stephanie Flowers, Democrat of Pine Bluff and the daughter of a pioneering black Arkansas lawyer and judge, said that "it's unfortunate that we can't accept the truth of our history," and that she saw "no reason" to rewrite passages that some Republicans said were "divisive".
But Judy Corman, a spokeswoman for Scholastic, said the rewritten passage was Ms. Rowling's original intent.
Fans argue that by the fourth book, as Harry approaches manhood, he has come to identify mainly with his father's example, making the rewritten passage less appropriate.
While future generations reading Blume may find some solace in this rewritten passage, Rebecca Traister suggested that this update "fits in perfectly with a contemporary attitude about towards children's books: that they increasingly seem to serve not simply as stories unto themselves, but as instructional manuals".
I fidgeted and talked to myself, rewriting passages of a book that had already gone to print.
After her death scholars reedited Nietzsche's writings and found some of Elisabeth's versions distorted and spurious: she forged nearly 30 letters and often rewrote passages.
Authors, don't keep rewriting passages that have been deemed successful; this constant revisionism will undermine the DE's efforts to bring the problematic passages into alignment.
Many writers I've worked with as a developmental editor have taken my suggestions for rewriting passages in a reprint edition, holding themselves to a high standard, seeing stylistic or structural changes that could improve the book.
Rewrite the passage in small groups or as a class.
Undeterred, I offered to rewrite the passages in question.
Ask students to rewrite textbook passages so that they more authentically account for what happened.
