SS/PS question

[Carol]

zanooda:
<snip>
> Here is another question, not controversial this time :-). In Ch.11
("Quidditch") Lee Jordan says: "... a penalty to Gryffindor, taken by
Spinnet, who puts it away". My question is: did she score or did she
miss :-)? I personally understand it as "score", but again, I'm not
completely sure, and I'm not an English-speaker, and somehow
dictionaries are not much help in this case. Would you mind if I
exploited you guys a little more :-)? Could you tell me what "put
away" means in this context?
>
Carol:
It means that she put the Quaffle away in her duffle bag. <Joking!> It
means she scored. Or, at least, that's how I read it.

BTW. I was confused at first by the expression "penalty to" since I
think of a penalty as a punishment. I suppose it means "penalty shot
to Gryffindor because of a penalty *against* Slytherin. I don't know
whether that usage is common in the US as well as the UK--it might
just be that I'm not a sports fan and can only follow baseball and
basketball, in which the scoring is simple and obvious.

Carol, wondering whether my little joke was obvious on a first reading
or not