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

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In a message dated 10/15/2004 9:10:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
justcarol67 at yahoo.com writes:
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. But my bet is that the original was simply a mistake on the
author's and editor's part, too late to change. :-)
>
Chancie
Perhaps it's not a mistake.  Maybe Hagrid did go to return the bike, and 
Sirius then told him to keep it.  There is a lot that we still don't know about GH 
and the events shortly there after.  I do have a sneaking suspicion that all 
that will begin to come out in H-BP, however.  JKR said that some of the info 
that had originally been in the first chapter of PS/SS was cut because it was 
much too long, but that it had finally had it's home in book 6.  And since the 
first chapter of SS/PS was about taking harry to the Dusley's it makes since 
to me that that could be the omitted info.  

I also have thought the bike was in the forbidden forest, but also, I wonder 
why Sirius never found it while there in PoA.  We know he was staying there 
for a while, since Harry sees Crookshanks and him walk into the forest together. 
 Sirius knows that Hagrid was the last one to have it, and I would assume he 
would have looked for it in case he needed it.  But then again, he may not 
have been looking for a possible escape route since he had such an obsession with 
killing Peter.  

Also, I have wondered if maybe after Hagrid "discovered" that Sirius betrayed 
the Potter's if he would have maybe thrown the bike in the lake not wanting 
to have anything that belonged to that "trader."  We all know how sensitive 
Hagrid is, and it is highly possible that he would have such an out look on 
things.  Its not really as though he needed something that flies to get him from 
point A to B.  He has Hippogrifs and Thressels to do that, and doesn't have to 
worry about the MoM catching him with an illegal bike.  

Chancie~~~~Sorry so long,         


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