small mistake

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Re: small mistake
Reply To: [Yahoo! #6694] Re: small mistake
Date: 8/12/00 10:19 am  (ET)

> in PS/SS at the beginning when Hagrid brings Harry to Dumbledore and
McGonagall he then says he has to return the bike to Sirius Black... yet
in POA he says that Sirius told him NOT to bring the bike back!

This was discussed one time before GoF came out, and some people agreed
that Hagrid is the kind of person who can't tell the difference between
what a person said and he what he *thinks* they meant. Thus, when Sirius
lent him the bike and told him not to worry about bringing it back,
Hagrid, knowing how much Sirius *loved* that bike and not knowing that
Sirius planned to die avenging his friends, Hagrid just ignored what
Sirius had said and went by what he *thought* Sirius meant ("I want my
bike back but I'm too nice to tell you so in these circumstances").

Later, when Hagrid "knew" that Sirius was a mass murderer, he remembered
what Sirius had said but understood it to mean "I have committed a
terrible crime and am about to fly from the law, so there's no point to
bringing the bike back because I won't be here."