Just where *IS* Sirius' motorbike then?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 115268

macfotuk wrote:
"JKR has given a hint that 'devoted fans' may have correctly worked
out where Sirius' motorbike is/ended up.

Anyone got any comments on what this means (as in - who has guessed
and what did they decide?)."

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."

DuffyPoo:
Except Hagrid says "Yeah, I'll be takin' Sirius his bike back." 

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. :-)"

DuffyPoo:
"Black argued, but in the end he gave in.  Told me ter take his motorbike to get Harry there. 'I won' need it any more,' he says. I shoulda known there was somethin' fishy goin' on then. He loved that motorbike, what was he givin' it ter me for?"  Sirius wanted Hagrid to use the bike to get HP to his relatives.  He wouldn't need it any more because he was going to kill Peter Pettigrew and knew he'd be locked up in Azkaban.  The rest of Hagrid's statement here is hindsight. Since Hagrid didn't know any of what was going on, just his orders to take HP, he wouldn't have considered keeping the bike.  He didn't know then, all he learned some time later, and his intent was to return the bike to 'young Sirius Black' when he'd done with it. He knew Sirius loved the bike, and would have planned to return it to him, IMO.  Where is it now?  He told HP that he 'flew' to get him off the island in PS.  Is the bike still on the island?

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