Need Quote: Help with Sirius's Motorcyle - More

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 92713

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:
> 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.

Geoff:
My hardback UK edition, which is dated 1999 on the info page and 
which I bought last autumn hase "get this bike away".

"Give Sirius his bike back" and "Give Sirius' bike back" would both 
be acceptable Britishisms.