Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - More

drjuliehoward drjuliehoward at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 9 22:32:34 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 92584

<snip>
> As you already know, the Bloomsbury edition does not mention 
Sirius's 
> name twice; Hagrid only says "I'd best get this bike away" when he 
> leaves Privet Drive. I consider the UK edition as more "canon" 
than 
> any other edition I must say :-)
> 
> Berit
> http://home.no.net/berjakob/snape.html

IMO, "I'd best get this bike away" is much different from "I've ot 
to return this to Sirius."  Getting it away may simply mean out of a 
Muggle neighborhood.  Any other UK canon evidence that Hagrid 
intended to return it to Sirius?

Julie





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