Sketch Topic: Travel/Transportation

[Steve Vander Ark]

No: HPFGUIDX 24718

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Zarleycat at a... wrote:

> the act of driving as we know it.  Remus Lupin says he must speak 
to 
> the driver of the Hogwarts Express, after the Dementor had made an 
> appearance (PoA p. 85).  "Driver" seems to be an odd job 
description 
> for a person running a train on a set of tracks.  How do these 

An engine driver is the British equivelent of a train engineer in the 
US. Sounds odd to Yanks, sounds perfectly normal to Brits.


> vehicles work? I agree with what others on this list have posted, 
and 
> with the overview on Transportation on the Harry Potter Lexicon  - 
> that magic vehicles share similarities of appearance with Muggle 
> devices, but they run by magic.\


FYI: the page listing forms of transportation is located at:
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/w_transportation.html

the discussion of magical devices compared to Muggle ones is here:
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon/hogwarts_express.html
(scroll down the page a bit)


Steve Vander Ark
The Harry Potter Lexicon
http://www.i2k.com/~svderark/lexicon