[HPforGrownups] Re: Do All Students Travel to Hogwarts by the HE?

[Jacob Lewis]

No: HPFGUIDX 45966

Scripsit "bess_va2000":
>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".

*rolls his eyes*  Really, haven't ANY of you read "Hogwarts: A History"?
You /can't/ take floo powder into the School.  It's not linked to the Floo
Network.  Of course, you /can/ use the stuff inside the castle (PoA - Snape
uses it to summon Lupin) but the whole point of all the wards on the castle
is to make it /incredibly/ safe, which means no floo powder, no apparating,
and probably highly regulated air traffic as well (Flying Ford Anglia's
notwithstanding).  That's why Dumbledore had to take a /broom/ to London in
PS/SS, and why Hagrid has to go down to Hogsmeade to catch the Knight Bus in
PoA: you just can't get to or from Hogwarts unless you're cleared.

So yeah, everybody takes the HE to Hogwarts -- and I tend to think that
everyone ends up at 9 and 3/4 at King's Cross, even if you started out from,
say, platform 7 at the Dublin station -- but that's just me.

Hermio -er, Jacob