Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - Thanks

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 92426

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> ...edited...
> In the USA edition of PS/SS (paraphrased) Hagrid said he needed to
> return Sirius's motorbike to him, BUT in the UK edition, it says that,
> roughly, Hagrid needed to put it away.
> 
> ...edited...
> 
> bboy_mn

bboy_mn:

PS (from Bloomsbery, 1997) - "Yeah," said Hagrid in a very muffled
voice. "I'd best get this bike away. ..."

SS (Scholastic, 1999) - "Yeah," said Hagrid in a very muffled voice. 
"I'll be takin' Sirius his bike back. ...."

Thanks for the help. I have to say things like this worry me. I can't
help wondering how and why these changes get made. Did the US
publisher make this decision on his own based on what he thought was a
 clarification, or did JKR approve the changes first? 

The real problem is that we really don't know what will be significant
in later books. So, a seemingly minor change now could possibly become
very significant later. This is after all a mystery, and until they
are revealed, we don't know what might be a clue. 

Anyway... thanks for the help.

bboy_mn