Trusting characters Re: bullies? twins, padfoot and prongs

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 118874


> 
> Kneasy:
> Don't know how he got here?
> Motorbike, surely.
> That's  what Hagrid  borrowed to transport Harry to Privet Drive 
IIRC.

Finwitch:
That's right-- and of course, Hagrid flew it to the rock to give 
Harry his letter. Don't know what happened to it later. Maybe Hagrid 
took the boat back to get the bike - and flew to Hogwarts... Where is 
it now?

Kneasy:
> Now how someone can be sneaking around on a machine that can be 
> heard half-a-mile away defeats me. He might as well have put an 
advert
> in the Daily Prophet. Hardly surreptitious.

Finwitch:
How do you know the bike doesn't have a silencer? It runs on magic, 
not gas - and since they can make things invisible (Ford Anglia has 
Invisibility Booster, set in by Arthur Weasley - I'm positive Sirius' 
bike has one, too), making things silent should be easy.

Kneasy:
> To my mind the most interesting question is "why did he arrange to
> meet Peter?" For his plan to work all contact should be broken, 
nothing
> should link Sirius to any of the Potter's *other* friends, 'cos if 
Sirius
> can't be found, what's Voldy gonna do? Check up on the others, of
> course; Sirius could be hiding out with them.

Finwitch:

I don't think it was. Sirius needs to check on Peter in order to find 
out if he's captured so that Potters could possibly be warned in 
time. (And don't forget their animagus ability, as a rat *hiding* is 
pretty easy for Peter). Peter may have been hiding in a rat-nest, in 
(seemingly) abandoned barn-house full of rats or whatever. No, Sirius 
went to check on him on a pre-arranged place on pre-arranged time 
(possibly agreed upon when the FC was set). Peter wasn't there, so 
Sirius gets to the Potters. And - since there WAS hope for Sirius to 
find James & Lily & Harry alive if he was quick enough, so he *can't* 
waste time in alerting anyone.

And how do we know that Pettigrew's hiding-place wasn't ALSO under 
FC, with Sirius as SK?

Finwitch