[HPforGrownups] Re: nine and three quarters

[Shaun Hately]

No: HPFGUIDX 55268

On 13 Apr 2003 at 1:53, liana_goldenquill wrote:

> I have heard an old legend that Boudicca/Boadicea was buried between 
> platforms 9 and 10 of the King's Cross Station.  I remember this myth 
> from long before I read the first Harry Potter book, so I'm not sure 
> I can find sources to back it up, but I will keep trying.

I'm running a game at a roleplaying Convention next weekend based on this (Harry 
Potter and the Crown of the Warrior Queen), so I have checked references. It is an old 
legend, nobody is sure of the source, but the oldest reference I can find to it is in 
'Boadicea - Warrior Queen of the Britons' published in 1937. Spence didn't claim that 
Boadicea was specifically buried at King's Cross, but he did site her final battle on the 
site of Kings Cross and St Pancras stations, and if she died during that battle (which is 
possible, but unlikely), it would make sense she'd have been buried near where she fell. 
But Spence's locating of the battle there is based on some pretty.... interesting 
assumptions.





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