Missing 24 hours.

[Sherry]

No: HPFGUIDX 140280

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
<gbannister10 at t...> wrote:
> >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:
> 
> 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.

Amontillada:
Hagrid might have been making the journey cautiously, taking a
deliberately indirect route (similar to the circuitous route Moody led
in OotP). He wanted to avoid the Death Eaters, who could be expected
to be out, in confusion about just what had happened, trying to get
their hands on the child whom they blamed. Bellatrix & Co's attack on
the Longbottoms later shows that at least some Death Eaters didn't try
to give up on LV right away.

Dumbledore knew of this, since he wasn't alarmed that Hagrid wasn't
already there in Ch. 1 of SS/PS. He also took into account the best
time to lay Harry at the Dursleys' door. Leaving him in very late
night or early morning, so the Dursleys would find him when Uncle
Vernon went to work, made much more sense than dropping him off at
midday, in plain sight of the entire neighborhood.

Amontillada