Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 119233


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

> 
> Carol notes:
 
> 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.
> 
> Someone suggested that Sirius may not know how to apparate, and I'll
> grant that that's possible. Maybe he thought that as an animagus, he
> didn't need to learn. But since he's a bit of a show-off and likes 
to
> take risks, I can't imagine him choosing not to learn (or James,
> either). And I would think that if you're good at Transfiguration,
> you'd be good at making yourself disappear and reappear. Maybe?

Marianne:

A suggestion from out of left field - maybe Sirius was prohibited 
from learning how to Apparate.  Much has been made by some listies of 
Sirius never being punished for the Prank.  We don't know canon-wise 
if that's true or not, but part of Snape's lingering anger about this 
can be interpreted to mean that whatever punishment was meted out was 
not severe enough to satisfy him.  Well, perhaps part of the 
punishment was that this particular bit of magic was denied to 
Sirius.  And, since he was prohibited from getting the Ministry-
approved license to Apparate, he retaliated in Sirius-like fashion by 
getting his hands on a motorcycle and charming it to fly.  Illegal, 
as is was the flying Ford Anglia, but obviously something that 
wizards can do in private without the Ministry knowing about it.

Marianne, idly speculating while listening to the cats fight.