Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - More

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92696

bboy_mn:
 
I took the UK version, '...get this bike away...' as a Brit-Speak
truncation of that statement '...best get this bike PUT away...'
implying that he is going to store it in some fashion. 
 
If the statement is taken in a very general fashion, he is saying, 'I
have to do something about this bike'.  In a sense, saying that his
night isn't over until he has somehow resolved his possession of the
bike, whether that be by returning it, abandoning it, ditching it, or
storing it, it has to be deal with before he can end his night.

The US edition has taken this general statement or Hagrid's implied
statement that he is simply going to store the bike (put it away), and
shifted it to specifically returning it to Sirius.
 
This is very much like that changing of the words 'one more curse' to
'one more death' in GoF. It does make some logical sense, and the
editor may have thought he was clearing up some vagueness, but any of
these details could become very important in future books. 
<snip>

Carol:
But all versions (US, UK, and electronic) say that the bike was
"lent," which certainly implies that "get[ting] this bike away" means
returning it. "Lent" in itself contradicts the later statement in PoA
that Sirius *gave* it to him.

Also, if you look at earlier posts, Neri said that his *electronic*
version had "get this bike away" but Shaun Hately's Bloomsbury
paperback (or hardback?) has the same wording as the US edition: "I'll
be takin' Sirius his bike back."

Here's the relevant portion of the earlier post (92383), to which I
replied in 92502:

>>Neri:
<snip> My electronic version of PS (from Bloomsbery, 1997) has in the
end of chapter 1:
"Yeah," said Hagrid in a very muffled voice. "I'd best get this
bike away. G'night, Professor McGonagall – Professor Dumbledore, sir."<<
>
>
>Shaun Hately:
My Bloomsbury has: "Yeah," said Hagrid in a very muffled
voice. "I'll be takin' Sirius his bike back. G'night, Professor
McGonagall – Professor Dumbledore, sir."
Interestingly it doesn't have the year it was printed listed
anywhere - it must be after 2000 because it has that as a Trademark
date - but no actualy date of publication besides the First
Published 1997.< 


So, again, I think it's just the electronic version that has "get this
bike away" and that "I'll be giving Sirius his bike back" (pure
Hagrid-speak) is the authentic version. I know that being in the
American edition doesn't authenticate it, but Shaun says it's in his
Bloomsbury as well. If so, it's the preferred, and possibly the
original, version.

Carol