Just where *IS* Sirius' motorbike then?

[mhbobbin]

No: HPFGUIDX 115274


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "huntergreen_3" 
<patientx3 at a...> wrote:
> 
> Sue wrote:
> >>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. <<
> 
> HunterGreen:
> Perhaps he didn't take Sirius seriously (no pun intended) when he 
> said to keep the bike, and realized it later (as he suggests), 
along 
> with realizing how odd that was. Perhaps after he left he couldn't 
> find Sirius, then remembered what he said, and decided to do 
whatever 
> he did with the bike (maybe he just left it at Sirius' house?).

mhbobbin:  
Although Hagrid didn't know to suspect Sirius Black as the Secret 
Keeper, Dumbledore did.  So in retrospect, it does seem a bit odd 
for Hagrid to be telling DD that he used the motorbike from the 
Betrayer and is taking the motorbike back to the Betrayer. Of 
course, DD might be playing his knowledge close to the vest (and 
this bit of exposition doesn't belong in this first chapter) but it 
does make me wonder if DD planned to catch up to Sirius himself and 
question him. (which would have changed the course of the story)
First, I'll deal with Harry's safety, then justice for Sirius.

But now I'm confused. Since the Attack on GH takes place a full day 
before Harry is left at Privet Drive, and Sirius caught up with 
Pettigrew "the next day",  has the incident with Pettigrew / Black 
with the death of 12 Muggles already happened by the time Harry is 
dropped at Privet Drive? Or is it the following day?

It all comes back to the missing 24 hours--what was DD doing in that 
24 hours, was Harry hidden somewhere first and so forth?