Just where *IS* Sirius' motorbike then?

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No: HPFGUIDX 115263


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> 
>
> Del replies :
> Well, it seems logical that when Hagrid was done with delivering
Baby
> Harry, he just went home, since he didn't have to give his bike back
> to Sirius. And right next to Hagrid's cabin, there's a place
> well-known for being the home of many different kinds of magical
> creatures, biological or not.
> 
> So my bet is on the Forbidden Forest.
> 
> Del, who acknowledges that she actually read that idea on this very
> forum a long time ago.

Sue:

Ah, but there's an inconsistency within the text. In POA, Hagrid says
that Sirius told him he could keep it and that he thought this strange,
etc., but if you go back to Chapter 1 of PS, Hagrid tells DD and MM that he'd
better get going *because he has to return the bike!* Both are canon, then. 
Now,you could suggest that he got back, thought Sirius had betrayed the
Potters and ... did whatever he did with the bike. But my bet is that the
original was simply a mistake on the author's and editor's part, too late to 
change. :-)

But yes, it quite probably IS somewhere in the Forbidden Forest if we
ignore the glitch.