Why did Mrs. Weasley say that?

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., morsethanatos at y... wrote:
> I was reading Sorcerer's Stone over and I like began to seem very 
> strange to me:
> '"Now what's the platform number?" said the boys' mother.'(Chapter 
> six pg 92 of the Scholastic paperback)
> 
> This seems extremely peculiar. Would she not know what the station 
> was and where to go? Or is there actually another magic platform?


Just chalk it up to be another mystery along the lines of:
(1) What happened to the school song in the books following HP1?
(2) How come none of the first year candidates in HP1 knew about the 
Sorting Hat?  It's hardly a big secret yet nobody seemed to know 
about.  Ron had his two parents and five older brothers before him.  
Nobody spilled the beans or mentioned it in his presence?  
(3) If nobody can apparate or disapparate at Hogwarts, how come Dobby 
can pop in and out easily?
(4) How come the Marauder's Map didn't show two Harrys and two 
Hermiones just before the Shrieking Shack in HP3?
(5) How come the Marauder's Map never showed Peter Pettigrew to the 
Weasley twins or Harry before that fateful night?