[HPforGrownups] What's the platform number?

[A'Lehsen Paris]

No: HPFGUIDX 6415

Okay, I'm new to this group. *waves*  You can call me
Ally.

Anyway, I thought about this as I was reading your
suggestion, and I think you might be right.  I mean,
there could be a 10 and three quarters and lower or
something, and each platform could be allotted a
certain amout of compartments and passengers....of
course, I wasn't around for the original discussion,
so I'm a bit out of the loop here anyway, but that
would seem reasonable to me if they had as many
students as a "normal" private school with so many
grades in it has, which I believe can be as many as
five hundred students.  

~Ally



--- smitster  <kippesp at swbell.net> wrote:
> I'm probably just being picky, but why did Mother
> Weasley ask this in 
> SS/PS when the family arrived at the station?  I've
> always had the 
> impression that there was only one platform to board
> THE train to 
> Hogwarts.  And from later books, we know that she
> must already know 
> having been a student there.  Fortunately, little
> Ginny knows the 
> answer (and she hasn't even been for all we know). 
> Being excited, 
> she must have read the letter/ticket.
> 
> Surprisingly, I don't recall anyone questioning the
> capacity of the 
> train when we had our lengthy discussions about the
> number of 
> students.  (I could, however, have VERY easily
> missed it.)  Perhaps 
> there are multiple platforms justifying Ms.
> Weasley's question.
> 
> Curious.  Very curious indeed...
> 
> 
> 


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