The Romance

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-Movie at yahoogroups.com, "CK Campbell" <ckc at ...> wrote:
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> What missing 24 hours?
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> Carolyn (ckc)
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Carol responds:

"The missing twenty-four hours" is the way those of us on the main list refer to the twenty-four hours that Minerva McGonagall spent sitting around in cat form at 5 Privet Drive waiting for Dumbledore to show up. During that time, the WW (Wizarding World) is already celebrating Voldemort's defeat and Harry's survival (with a rather callous disregard for the murders of James and Lily). 

Hagrid supposedly goes to Godric's Hollow before the Muggle police show up, digs Harry out of the rubble, and comforts Sirius Black, who has shown up on his motorcycle. Sirius then lends or gives him the motorcycle and flies with Harry to the Dursleys, where he arrives nearly twenty-four hours after the Potters were killed at midnight Halloween night.

So the question is, what were Hagrid and Dumbledore doing all that time? Why didn't Hagrid arrive on the early morning of November 1 rather than making McGonagall wait a whole day for him? And how did he manage to tell her he'd be at the Dursleys, anyway. Did he take Harry back to Hogwarts for a day?

Anyway, readers have mentioned those twenty-four hours to JKR, and she seems completely puzzled.

Carol, with apologies for her many recent posts (the result of being unable to post the last few days while she met a deadline)