Just where *IS* Sirius' motorbike then?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 116021

Carol said:
"If I understand you correctly, "I'd best get this bike away" is the
later reading (2000) and "I'll be takin' Sirius his bike back" is the
original reading (1997), retained in the American edition. "

DuffyPoo:
Correct.  I have a box set of the first three hardback books purchased the Christmas after GoF was published (2000).  The PS/SS hardback says published in 2000 as well but I believe it is just a reprint of the original published in 1997.  CoS and PoA say published in 1999.  My box set of the first 4 paperbacks, all say published in 2000 and that's where *all* my edition changes for those four books are found.  

Before anyone asks why I have two sets of books, I was working on making myself a lexicon of sorts (before I found HPLexicon online) and the three biggest hardback books were splitting up the spine.  I decided to buy, and ruin, a paperback set instead of my harbacks. ;)


Carol said:
"But the date, not the writing style, is what's important here: Yours
is a later printing and seems to indicate an attempt by JKR to
eliminate the discrepancy between Hagrid's two versions of the story,
i.e., she's trying to make the British edition of PS agree with PoA.
Unfortunately, she seems to have left in the line, "young Sirius Black
lent it me," which makes the change to "I'd best get this bike away"
rather pointless--a nice Hagridian line referencing a character we'll
meet later is changed to a feeble and forgettable one without removing
the idea the the motorbike was merely lent. Or did she also change the
"lent it me" line in your edition, DuffyPoo?"

DuffyPoo:

Paperback (new 2000 edition) says "Borrowed it, Professor Dumbledore, sir," said the giant, cimbing carefully off the otorbike as he spoke.  "Young Sirius Black lent it me." - word for word what is in the Hardback edition.




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