Motorbike?

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 167305

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Abel" <random832 at ...> wrote:
>
> > Ken:
> >
> > In SS/PS Hagrid claims to have "flown" to the sea island,
> > right? He and Harry took the boat back to the mainland.
> > We don't know how the Dursleys got back! But one plausible
> > theory has to be that the bike is still on the island.

Jordan: 
> Well, we do know how the Dursleys got back - after the shopping trip,
> they go back to "the Dursleys" - which based on an analysis at
> hp-lexicon mainly aimed at guessing where little whinging is, has to
> be back to the island where they left them, not to their house in
> surrey. So, presumably the boat was returned to the island and they
> all (incl. Harry) made their way back to surrey by muggle means.

Geoff:
I can't locate the Lexicon item but canon seems to be very specific about
what happened at the end of that day.

Hagrid takes Harry to Paddington railway station and he gets on a train 
on his own, leaving Hagrid behind. Trains out of Paddington don't get 
near the coast until way, way down the line. Now I agree that Hagrid 
and Harry came ashore in the morning of that day and walked to the 
railway station to go to London. But although Hagrid is quite gormless 
sometimes, I don't see him dumping Harry on a train to go back and 
save the Dursleys on his own, if I interpret what you are saying correctly.

I think it is more feasible that the boat owner was involved in some way 
in rescuing them. This is possibly a bit of the story which it wasn't 
thought important enough to include since HPFGU and its army of 
sleuths didn't exist at that point in time.
:-)