[HPforGrownups] Re: Why didn't Sirius need his motorbike anymore?

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 157722

> Sue here:
>
> This is an odd scene, because it's inconsistent with the first scene of HPPS, in which Hagrid
> says he's borrowed the motorbike and had better get going because he has to return it. I
> personally think it's just a glitch that was never fixed.

Random832:

This was 'fixed' in later editions from "I'll be takin' Sirius his
bike back." 	to "I best get this bike away." - see
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/about/books/differences.html

I actually think the original version works better if we assume that
Hagrid didn't "know" Sirius was guilty of betraying the Potters. The
reason given for changing it was 'This sentence didn't fit very well
with the way the character of Sirius was developed as the series
progressed.' which tells me that JKR didn't know she was going to have
Sirius be accused/wrongly-accused/whatever at the time she wrote this
chapter. (I don't doubt that she had everything planned out to some
degree, but it's possible that she hadn't put a name to the character
she planned for PoA yet)

-- 
Random832