Do All Students Travel to Hogwarts by the HE?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 46030

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Tamara" <buffyeton at y...> wrote:

> It would seem kind of silly for students who live in Northern
> England or Scotland to have to travel all the way down to London 
> just to go back again.  Do you think there is an alternate way to 
> get to Hogwarts for those who live closer?

This was answered in 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/26288 in 
September 2001, when Edis Bevan quoted 
"Introduction to Muggle Studies.  (Extracts) 

Travel and space

Understanding how Muggles see how the world connects up is a big 
problem for Wizarding people. We have to let go of a lot of our 
assumptions to grasp how limited Muggle perceptions can be – but 
understanding this is vital for an understanding of how the 
Wizarding world can exist unperceived alongside the Muggle world. 

As an example take travel to Hogwarts school. A Muggle given a 
simple explanation of (for example) the Hogwarts Express, the ban on 
apparating in Hogwarts, the apparent inability to link to the Floo 
network, and the apparent inability to fly in by broomstick from 
long distances away will be in considerable confusion. 

Why for example do Hogwarts students have to go to `London' to 
catch a train to Hogwarts? The answer, immediately obvious to 
anyone with a knowledge of the basics of Magical Geometrics, will 
so thoroughly confuse Muggles that they will spend years arguing 
about contradictions and logical impossibilities and come to no 
(Muggle) sensible conclusion whatsoever. Exercise 3B in the 
associated workbook of this chapter will take you step by step 
through how Muggle Geometrics work to show you how they get to that 
peculiar state of mind."