Hagrid Flew?

[erisedstraeh2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 43814

Jeff (doffy99)wrote:
 
> How did Hagrid fly over to the island to get Harry? Hagrid isn't a 
> fully trained wizard. He couldn't use a spell to fly? He obviously 
> couldn't apparate. So how did he get there? If he KEPT the bike, 
> then he could have flown that, but where did it go? 
 
Now me:

I don't think Hagrid's flying involved the motorbike, since the 
change from "I need to return the bike to Sirius" to "I need to put 
the bike away" was made fairly recently, while Hagrid telling Harry 
he flew to the Hut on the Rock has been there from the start.

How Hagrid flew is one of the many questions we don't have definite 
answers to.  I love the Hagrid Poppins idea, but doesn't it say 
somewhere in Quidditch through the Ages that a witch/wizard can't fly 
on her/his own (in an explanation of why wizards need broomsticks or 
flying carpets to fly)?  Which is why I dislike the scenes in the 
Movie That Must Not Be Named of Quirrellmort flying without the aid 
of a magical object.  Although perhaps the umbrella was temporarily 
enchanted by Dumbledore to help Hagrid get to Harry?

Jeff (doffy99)again:

> Do we know when Sirius fought Pettigrew? Was it the next day or a
> few days later? Pettigrew should have been in hiding I would think. 
> How long after the fight with Wormtail was he arrested? Was it 
> immediate? 

Me again:

I don't have PoA with me, but IIRC, it says that Pettigrew "caught up 
with Sirius the next day."  It also says that Sirius was arrested on 
the spot (IIRC, by 20 MoM employees).

~Phyllis