Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[Shanoah Alkire]

No: HPFGUIDX 119221


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" <justcarol67 at y...>
wrote:
<snip>
> But, that aside, why would Sirius use the motorcycle rather than
> apparating to Godric's Hollow? (Several answers have been given
> upthread, but I haven't heard anything really convincing yet--other
> than JKR's need to have Hagrid use the motorcycle since he either
> can't apparate at all or can't apparate with a baby.) But I'm
looking
> for a convincing character-based explanation for why *Sirius* used
it.
> 

To be honest, we don't really know enough about the situation to
say. we don't know what the motorcycle is capable of, what the
protections (besides Fidelis) were on Godric Hollow, what 
alerted Sirius to what was going on, how much he knew, etc...

There could have been anti-apparation wards around Godric 
Hollow. Also, he couldn't apparate directly inside the Potters
House from outside because of Fidelis, IIRC, and he might not
 have made it so he didn't know the surrounding area well 
enough to apparate there.

He may have placed a ward around Godric Hollow, been riding
the motorcycle, had had an alarm signalling that it was broken
go off, and it was quicker to stay on the motorcycle then to park
it.

He may even have been in the vicinity of Godric Hollow at the
time.

Heck, for all we know, the motorcycle apparates with its rider... :) 

Or perhaps he was in enough of a panic that he didn't think that
he could apparate safely without splinching himself.

<snip>
> Anyway, if Sirius can't apparate, how did he get to the tropical
> island (or whatever it was) where he was hiding at the beginning of
> GoF? And how did he get back to England? He didn't have his
motorcycle
> (or a broom) in either case, and I doubt that he swam the English
> Channel, much less a larger body of water like the Mediterranean
Sea,
> in either human or dog form. He's unlikely to have had a port key,
> either, and Floo Powder wouldn't work for such a long journey.
> 

Stowing away as Padfoot on a ship, and then disembarking?

--Arcum