Do All Students Travel to Hogwarts by the HE?

[bluesqueak]

No: HPFGUIDX 45943

--- 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?

Unless JKR has said somewhere that King's Cross is the only place to 
board the Hogwarts Express, I suspect it's simply that Harry never 
really notices or bothers about the stops en route. An en-route stop 
usually only takes about three minutes on British railways, so Harry 
might well not really notice it - especially if it's boarding only.

I could imagine the Hogwarts Express calling at platform 7 and a 
quarter at Birmingham, 12 and a bit at Manchester, and 5 and a half 
at Edinburgh. :-)

That would cover most of the population, including the Irish 
students who come over by muggle ferry rather than muggle aircraft.


 [Presumably the WW don't have the same problems with the West Coast 
Railway line that us muggles are presently having.]

Pip!Squeak