Request/Two General HP-Related Questions...

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No: HPFGUIDX 22022

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Ebony AKA AngieJ" <ebonyink at h...> wrote:
 
> QUESTIONS
> 
> Two quick questions that I've thought of in my first week here:
> 
> 1)  Is the Hogwarts Express the only way that kids get to 
Hogwarts?  
<snip>Why in the world would wizard kids from Manchester or Liverpool 
or Aberdeen 
> come all the way to London?  You can't Floo to King's Cross that we 
> know of, underage kids can't Apparate, we haven't seen anyone 
attempt 
> to balance a trunk on a broomstick yet, it's illegal to enchant 
your 
> car, etc. etc.  It'd be stupid for Scottish or Northern English 
> parents to drive all the way down here so their kids could catch a 
> train back in the direction they just came from.

> 2)  Why does no one have tea in the books?  

Hi everybody!


Here's my thoughts on 1):

Well, we know you can go by floo to Diagon Alley (and for that matter 
Nocturn ally, if you're not clear enough). And most students have to 
go there right before start of term to buy books, robes, wands, what-
have-you anyway, which means they might as well kill two flies in a 
stroke: Do their shopping bussiness and catch the HE. 
This, in turn, raises another question: Are there wandmakers, 
bookstores, robe parlours and Owl-o-ramas only in London/Diagon Alley 
or can you indeed make all your school purchases locally, wherever 
you live? AFAIK, we haven't heard of any Hogwarts student *not* 
having bought their wands at Ollivander's or their books at Flourish 
& Blotts.
So, the way I see it, the mother and father of the O.W.F. (Ordinary 
Wizarding Family) say to each other:
'Let's go by floo to Diagon Alley! There we can buy books and stuff 
to the kids, take them to KingsX where they will be happy to rejoin 
their schoolmates they haven't seen all summer, and then we can have 
a romantic weekend in London, staying at the Leaky Cauldron.'
'That's a wonderful idea, dear. Same as every year.'

And a quickie on 2):

Oh, they have tea, alright, at least in Divination: It's seems hard 
to foresee the future without the stocastically located tea leaves.

Come to think of it, didn't R/H see the tea leaves resembling a 
bowler hat, thus foreseeing a future in MoM? Forgive my weak 
knowledge of British hat culture (bangs fashion part of brain in oven 
door), but what is a bowler hat? I just keep imagining what kind of 
hat you would wear when you go bowling, but that doesn't seem right 
to me... A little help?

As for "worst cast ever" (must have been Comic Book Guy in Simpsons 
who said that phrase first), hear hear (Note, most of these actors I 
have nothing against(some I even like a lot), but they'd be horribly 
misplaced in these roles):

Harry: Kevin Costner
Ron: David Caruso
Hermione: Anna Nicole Smith
Dumbledore: Michael Douglas
Hagrid: Tom Arnold
Fred&George: Alec/Billy/Stephen/Insert-favourite-brother Baldwin 
(Three of them, two ordinary, one back-up)
Voldemort: James Earl Jones
Fluffy: Eddie the dog in 'Frasier'
Fang: Ren (or is it Stimpy? The dog, anyway)
Crookshanks/Scabbers: Itchy & Scratchy

With more WCE (Worst Cast Ever) in my next on topic post,

Martin Smith, vacation just seven hours away...wohoo!