24 hours/Bristol

[jodel at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42500

I already uploaded my ideas concerning McGonagall, Hagrid ,Sirius and the 
missing 24 hours. But I forgot to continue the arguement far enough to take 
in Hagrid's Bristol comment. Oops.

To continue, i have Sirius having been to Hogwarts attempting to get custody 
of his godson and finally giving up, leaving the motorcycle with hagrid (who 
has probably always admired it) and disapperating to go and hunt down 
Pettigrew. 

It's as well that Sirius did leave Hagrid the use of the motorcycle, since it 
seems likely, if uncertain, that Dumbledore may never have gotten back to 
Hogwarts all that day.  With the motorcycle, even if Dumbledore did get back 
to Hagrid by owl or by Floo, Hagrid would have been able to say that he would 
be able to get to Little Whinging, even if he had not been there before.

We know that Hogwarts is is Scotland. Most of the theories which i have read 
put it as being more likely to be in the Highlands than the lowlands. Flying 
due south from almost anywhere in the highlands would send one over the Irish 
Sea and the mountains of Wales, thinly populated areas where a flying 
motorcycle is not likely to be noticed. The Port of Bristol would serve very 
well as a large well-lit beacon marking the point that an airborne traveler 
should turn eastward and follow the railroads across southern England into 
Surrey. Presumably Hagrid is able to manage a strong enough location spell to 
hone in on Dumbledore once he got close enough to where Dumbledore (and 
Minerva) were waiting.

There are probably more complex solutions, but this seemed simple enought to 
be at least reasonably plausable.

-JOdel