Taxis vs. BritRail (was: Re: Godric's Hollow)

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 4406

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Christina Gross <Changeling at d...> 
wrote:

> I may not remember this correctly, but weren't the cars sent by the
> Ministry because the authorities were worried about Harry's safety
> after what happened at the Quidditch World Cup?

Cars were sent by the Ministry to take Harry and the Weaselys to 
school at the beginning of PoA in order to protect Harry from 
escaped convice Sirius Black.

In GoF, "Mrs Weasley had braved the telephone in the village 
Post Office to order three ordinary Muggle taxis to take 
them into London."

They couldn't have got from the Burrow to the Ottery St. Catchpole 
train station without taxis anyway. Mrs Weasley probably knows next 
to nothing about Muggle taxis, Muggle trains, and how much Muggle 
money is worth, so probably she figured that since she had to deal 
with taxis anyway, just take them all the way to King's Cross and not 
have to deal with Muggle trains as well.