unplottable

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 12218

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Kat Li" <keieru at h...> wrote:

> And then you've all the wizarding places unnaccessible by Muggles
> anyway, like Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade, and you've got to wonder
> if there's a little office in the Ministry of Magic where wizards
> are constantly casting forget-spells on poor unsuspecting Muggle
> cartographers... bit impractical though.

I imagine that Hogsmeade is not INACCESSIBLE to Muggles but merely 
disguised as something else, as Hogwarts Castle is disguised as a 
ruin.

Diagon Alley and Platform 9 3/4, and probably some other places, I 
imagine as being in some pocket out of the Muggle universe. That 
would also be how cars, houses, etc can be bigger inside than on 
the outside. 

So the Muggle cartographers can map all of Britain that is in the 
Muggle universe, no gaps, and it would differ from wizarding maps 
because the wizarding maps have a symbol at each place where there is 
a dimensional door/portal -- the symbol is in some ways like an 
asterisk that tells you to look elsewhere for the footnote, in this 
case the footnote being a maplet of what is inside the dimensional 
pocket, but maybe wizarding maps have hyperlinks and you just click 
on the asterisk....