Just where *IS* Sirius' motorbike then?

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No: HPFGUIDX 115686


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...> 
wrote:
>
> Carol responds:
> We had a thread about this discrepancy awhile back. It turns out that
> the American edition of SS has Hagrid saying, "I'll be takin' Sirius
> his bike back" (16) but the British edition has a different reading.
> Can anyone provide that other reading and might it be a correction
> made to later printings while JKR was writing PoA? But then he also
> says, "Young Sirius Black lent it me" (14), which I think is the same
> in both editions.
> 
> Carol, who notes that we can't blame the editor for not knowing the
> plot of future books

Sue here:

Actually, I do have the British edition (I live in Australia). I agree we can't 
blame the editor for everything - glitches happen. I think the author would 
have put in a basic proposal for the entire series before signing the contract, 
but the basic proposal wouldn't include such details as Hagrid mentioning the 
motorbike. :-) I don't blame the author either - it's easy to forget details a long 
time after.