[HPforGrownups] Re: Request/Two General HP-Related Questions...

[Danika Saal]

No: HPFGUIDX 22239



> > 1)  Is the Hogwarts Express the only way that kids get to Hogwarts?
>I'm having a hard time believing it.  I knew the UK areawise is
>nowhere near the size of the US, but I had no idea that England is as
>big as it is until I got here... <snip> Scotland's *much* further
>away from the South than I thought. >
>
>Is it at *all* possible that the train makes stops that Harry simply
>doesn't mention? I know this is weak, but thought I'd throw it out
>there. I don't have PoA with me, so I can't recall if the stop for
>the Dementors was regarding as unusual because the train actually
>stopped, or simply noted because of the way the train stopped (an
>unscheduled slam-on-the-breaks type thing, if I remember correctly)
>and the subsequent excitement of the Dementors, etc. If the train
>does make stops at different stations along the way, I don't know
>that Harry would comment on it.
>

Maybe when people run through the barrier to get to platform 9 3/4 they are 
'zapped' to the platform. SO that if people came from elsewhere in the UK 
they would be 'zapped' from wherever they were to the same platform 9 3/4.
This way it is conventient for everyone to get to the train station, without 
revealing the location of Hogwarts , (after all isn't it unplottable?)

> > 2)  Why does no one have tea in the books?  Heidi has a fascinating
> > theory about this that I buy (she was a history major once upon a
> > time), but why no tea in the wizarding world, yet house-elves wear
> > tea-cozies and tea-towels?  This tea thing is really so much a part
> > of the culture here that I immediately wondered about its absence
>in the books.  Unless I am forgetting something...
>
>I've missed Heidi's theory - could someone point me in that
>direction? As for tea, I just assumed they have it but don't mention
>it. Or maybe Harry just doesn't care for it, and since it's from his
>POV...
>
>Oh, well, when you're having your scone and clotted cream, Angie,
>please think of me.
>
>B

Hello?!?!?!? Doesnt Hagrid drink tea? Doesnt he offer it to our famous trio 
nearly every time they visit him??? I dont have the books with me so i cant 
check for sure, but i am sure that Hagrid drinks it all the time. And offers 
those aweful rock hard biscuits with it???

Danika and Brian Longbottom.


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