motor bike

[Sea Change]

Sherry wrote:
> > 
> > I have a question about the motor bike.  the survery made me 
> wonder. Does anyone have it in canon that the motorbike has been seen 
> or used at all after the sourcerers stone?  [snip]
> 
> Moondance also wrote:
[snip]
> 
> Its interesting, because in Book 1 Hagrid tells DD he's going to 
> return it to Sirius, but doesn't Hagrid say in Book 3 that Sirius 
> tells him to keep it, that he won't be needing it anymore?

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Sea Change replies:

The motorbike makes a racket when it lands the first time, but when
Hagrid next meets Harry, the storm and the surf are making a lot of
noise, so we wouldn't have heard it then.  We haven't seen Hagrid with
a broom, and a broom may not support him anyways. I presumed upon
rereading that Hagrid got there via Motorcycle.   Humans don't seem to
be able to fly on their own, and Hagrid left the island with Harry on
the boat that was already there, so he had to have gotten there somehow. 
 

Sea Change, who is amused to speculate that since the Dursleys won't
truck with anything magical, they probably hid the motorbike (on the
roof?) because its presence would have required explanation when they
got rescued.