Missing 24 hours.

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 140270

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "amiabledorsai" 
<amiabledorsai at y...> wrote:
> eggplant:

Amiable Dorsai:
> Now we don't know how fast Sirius' motorbike was, but the UK isn't
> that big--at any reasonable speed, Hagrid should have been able to get
> from wherever Godric's Hollow is to Surrey in a lot less than 24 
hours.

Geoff:
Just to flesh out that comment, it has been suggested that Godric's 
Hollow was in South Wales. If Hagrid passed over Bristol, a straight 
line between the supposed location of Little Whinging, which is 
considered to be in Surrey-that-was-Middlesex north of the river, and 
Godric's Hollow would, when extrapolated, land you up in West Wales, 
probably somewhere from Swansea westwards to Milford Haven.

With a good earthbound motor vehicle that couldn't fly and the M4 
motorway most of the way, the journey should be done in 4-5 hours. So 
Hagrid on a flying motorcycle, especially as it was done at night, 
could have made it easily within a few hours of rescuing Harry - which 
brings us back to the 24 hour question.