[HPforGrownups] Re: Just where *IS* Sirius' motorbike then?

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Carol said:
> 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?

That's what my UK ed. has. The red one with the train on the front,
copyright 1997.

Chancie said:
>Also, I have wondered if maybe after Hagrid "discovered" that Sirius
betrayed 
>the Potter's if he would have maybe thrown the bike in the lake not
wanting 
>to have anything that belonged to that "trader."  

That'd be my bet. I'm sure the bike was rusted, melted, banished, or
thrown off a cliff and dashed to pieces a long time ago.

Aura

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