Do All Students Travel to Hogwarts by the HE?

[bess_va2000]

No: HPFGUIDX 45971

Bess:
>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".

Jacob:
> 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

Miss Pedantic, uh Bess replies...seriously, I said *at* Hogwarts :-}. 
I could easily see a system where magical families reserved a table 
with Miss Rosemerta (spelling? I don't have my books here) for lunch, 
the whole family arrives to Hogsmeade by flue powder, then drops 
little Jennifer off at the Hogswart's gates with her trunck, or Dad 
still has to carry it up her dorm (Bess remembers her college dorm 
days...we always worried some poor father was going to have a heart 
attack on the stairs).  I always figured Hagrid took the bus because 
of Buckbeak (can you see that pair going through the magical network 
of fireplaces?), and Dumbledore went by broom because it might be a 
little more private (patron at the pub says "Oh look dear, there goes 
Dumbledore into the fire and he's headed for the ministry.  I wonder 
what's up?")

Bess