Hogwarts express (and Knight bus)

[James Handley]

No: HPFGUIDX 22254

"Danika Saal" <princess_danika at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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?)

Except that in CoS Harry and Ron take off in the car from King's Cross,
and follow the train all the way to Hogwarts.

This tends to imply that there is a 'hard' route from KX to
Hogwarts which the train actually travels along (even if the
actual track on the ground only exists while the express is travelling
over it, for example), and furthermore that the platform physically exists
at KX, but is just hidden from muggles...


Inicdently, does anyone else wonder why the knight bus bothers about
driving anywhere? It can clearly apparate (or whatever it
does) instantaneously to any part of the country - why not just jump
straight from location to location?

J.