[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts express (and Knight bus)

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 22297

James Handley wrote:

> "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.

That doesn't cause a problem with the theory at all. People from all
over would be "zapped" to the location King's Cross, where the Express
actually sits and leaves from for Hogwarts. Perhaps there's other
platforms further south? It's an interesting theory.

--Amanda


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