Do All Students Travel to Hogwarts by the HE?

[bess_va2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 45953

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bluesqueak" <pipdowns at e...> wrote:>  
> 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. :-)

I wonder, with no evidence from canon, that once you enter a platform 
in the Dublin, Manchester, or the Edinburgh train station, you end up 
on the Hogwarts Express platform.  I'm reminded of my Anthropology 
101 class - transitions and rites of passage are important.  By 
having all the students come together, and travel together, they are 
collectively moving from one state of being to another.  Otherwise, 
magical Moms and Dads could just drop their children off at Hogwarts 
via flue powder, while the Muggle-born would be at a disadvantage. By 
traveling together, there isn't an "other".

Bess