Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - More

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92704

Carol:
<snipped> 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?


Carol again:
If it's a correction, it's the preferred version, right? Maybe the
U.K. editor changed it in 1997 but JKR changed it back in later
printings? It seems odd for the correct version to appear *first* in
the American edition, and as I said, I don't think an American editor
would have changed "get this bike away" to "giv[e] Sirius his bike
back." "Sirius his" for "Sirius's" is what we poor deluded Americans
call a Briticism.

Carol, who is still confused but pretty sure that JKR *wanted*
Sirius's name to be mentioned twice so we'd remember it