Muggle Places

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 17920

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Andrew Preston <ajpresto at y...> wrote:
> > Muggle Places:
> > 
> > Privet Drive, London Locations


If you're interested in a nice list of all the Muggle places 
mentioned and/or visited, follow the link to Muggle World on the 
Lexicon. 

One place that's easily overlooked but which is such a fun scene is 
the fast food restaurant where Hagrid takes Harry out for a 
hamburger. Just imagine how out of place Hagrid would look among all 
the plastic tables and integrated seats in a MacDonalds...

As for the Hogwarts Express, it seems that it will run whenever 
necessary, or maybe Harry just assumes it will, since when he thinks 
he's about to be expelled, he imagines himself boarding the train the 
next day, which is certainly not one of the "official" travel days. I 
love the idea of the Hogwarts Express being a toy train set in 
Dumbledore's office when it's not needed. And the idea of it using 
Muggle tracks, just Knights-Bus-ing around or over other trains. You 
people are so clever :)

Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
which has quite a bit of information about Muggles and how they live
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon