Platform 9 3/4

[irbohlen at email.unc.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 17980

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:

> While we're on Muggle places, I have a question for anyone 
familiar 
> with King's Cross:  would platform 9 3/4 be outdoors or in?  I 
always 
> pictured it as the underground, but finally noticed that there are 
a 
> lot of owls hooting through the mist in GF 11.  So part of it at 
least  is  aboveground.

The trains part of Kings Cross [as opposed to the giant 
Underground station] is aboveground, but the platforms and 
tracks are covered by a very high roof. There are, IIRC six or eight 
platforms in the main part of Kings Cross. Then to the "left" if 
you're facing in the direction the trains leave is another small set 
of platforms [including trains to Cambridge] which is platforms 
eight to eleven? or something like that. In any case, I remember 
thinking the last time I was there that Platform 9 3/4 wasn't 
really in the main part of the station at all!

I believe there are some photos of Kings Cross in the Files 
which will at least give you a better idea of what I'm trying to 
explain about the "roof".

HTH,
Ivis