[HPforGrownups] Re: Just where *IS* Sirius' motorbike then?

[Phil Vlasak]

No: HPFGUIDX 115279


>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.
>
>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.

Now Phil:
Here are some clues that Hagrid has it and probably used it
several times in book one and a hint he used it in book five.

Harry couldn't sleep. He shivered and turned over, trying to get
comfortable, his stomach rumbling with hunger. Dudley's snores
were drowned by the low rolls of thunder that started near
midnight. (
( PS Chapter five, Harry hearing the motorcycle arrive.)

"How did you get here?" Harry asked, looking around for another
boat. "Flew," said Hagrid. "_Flew?" "Yeah--but we'll go back in
this. Not s'pposed ter use magic now I've got yeh." They settled
down in the boat, Harry still staring at Hagrid, trying to imagine
him flying. (
(PS chapter five, possibility that the motorcycle
flew back by itself.)

"Here," said Kingsley brusquely to Mr. Weasley, shoving a sheaf of
parchment into his hand, "I need as much information as possible
on flying Muggle vehicles sighted in the last twelve months. We've
received information that Black might still be using his old
motorcycle."
(OOP chapter seven, Hagrid   could have been spotted flying it
in his search for the giants.)

we was headin' fer where Olympe's school is, 'cause we knew we was
bein' tailed by someone from the Ministry. We had to go slow,
'cause I'm not really s'posed ter use magic an' we knew the
Ministry'd be lookin' fer a reason ter run us in. But we managed
ter give the berk tailin' us the slip round abou' Dee-John--"
(OOP chapter 20, Hagrid  and Madame Maxime  first used the motorcycle on 
the road.) .)

"We chanced a bit o' magic after that, and it wasn' a bad journey.
Ran inter a couple o' mad trolls on the Polish border, an' I had a
sligh' disagreement with a vampire in a pub in Minsk, but apart
from tha', couldn't'a bin smoother.
(OOP chapter twenty, later they flew on it.)

"I-I tripped."
"You tripped," she repeated coolly.
"Yeah, tha's right. Over ... over a friend's broomstick. I don'
fly, meself. Well, look at the size o' me, I don' reckon there's a
broomstick that'd hold me.
(OOP chapter twenty, further hint that Hagrid   uses the motorcycle, and 
not a broomstick.)

Phil (hoping these clues do form an answer to the puzzle.)



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