Ethnicity (was Hogwarts Location)/+wizard transport options/+parallel world theory

[Scott]

No: HPFGUIDX 14547

I just typed this but apparently hit the wrong button and now it 
seems to have disappeared. If my original post comes up before this 
one I'm sorry.

Neil wrote:
"I'm also formulating in my head an image of the magical world 
covering an alternative plane, but complementary to the Muggle world, 
rather than the two working alongside each other.  In my mind, the 
map of the magical world is more sparse; its features are dotted 
around the map, but with huge spaces in between, which are, in the 
Muggle world, completely full.  Landmarks such as Hogwarts, Diagon 
Alley and Hogsmeade are among the few named places on the wizarding 
map and would appear as "holes" on the Muggle map (not actual holes, 
but areas that somehow had nothing of note, for no appent reason)
I see the track which takes the Hogwarts Express from King's Cross to 
Hogwarts as the only transport route marked.  Older witches and 
wizards can apparate and use brooms for travel, so there is no need 
for a network of roads and tracks in the wizarding plane.  Although I 
see these two planes one on top of the other, I don't think things 
can exist in the same space (but bear in mind that some things could 
be below others - e.g. Gringotts)."

--Magic, Neil! I agree with you that they are on different planes. 
Even though us Muggles can't get to Diagon alley, or see it. It 
doesn't mean that it isn't there. It just doesn't happen to take up 
any space in our world because it doesn't exist to us. (Something 
like that.)

Say I stumble onto Hogwarts. All I see is a ruin of a castle but the 
real castle is still there, I just can't SEE it. However the people 
aren't there, they ARE on some type of different plane. Which might 
explain why Harry, Ron and Hermione never see confused hikers 
stumbling out of the Forbidden Forest.

IOW, if the magical Hogwarts and Hogsmeade are on another plane then 
the only way to get there is probably by magical transportation like 
apparation, and the Hogwart's Express. A muggle born wizard's parents 
couldn't physically drive to Hogwarts and let their son or Daughter 
off, because even if the child is a wizard they'd still see the 
muggle Hogwarts since they didn't get there via magical 
transportation.

Make sense? Nah, I didn't think so...

Scott