Muggle Places

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 17916

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jenfold at y... wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Andrew Preston <ajpresto at y...> wrote:
> > Muggle Places:
> > 
> > Privet Drive, London Locations

> > 
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We also see in PS/SS the streets of London which are filled with 
celebratory wizards partying down due to You Know Who having fallen.  

And in a flashback, Harry was in a store where one of the wizards 
stopped and bowed to him. 

> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > 1)	Do any other trains run on Platform 9 ¾? Wouldn't it be 
> wasteful for a platform to run only twice a year, to school and 
back?

Maybe there are other trains that run in the wizarding world that can 
be picked up from 9 3/4.  If Harry travels abroad at some point, 
maybe we'll find out that he can catch a train to France to visit 
Fleur in Beauxbatons or somesuch.
   
> > 2)	Is it a magic train? Does the whole thing only appear for the 
> few hours it's used? Wouldn't there be fear of discovery if they 
left the whole thing up all the time? Or is it wizard locked somehow? 

My guess is:  Brigadoon Syndrome.  The train and station are either 
stored in WizardSpace somewhere, or is miniaturized into a toy train 
set that trundles around Dumbledore's office until needed.