Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - More

nkafkafi nkafkafi at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 11 00:21:59 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 92698

<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Neri:
According to Berit (#92582) her Bloomsbury also has "get this bike 
away". I suspect that Shaun Hately was right: this version appears 
only in the first (1997) Bloomsbury edition, and was later corrected 
to include Sirius' name. Anyone with a 1997 UK edition?
 





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