Question about Hogwarts Express

[Emily Grace Blackstone]

No: HPFGUIDX 56587







Hi there!

Kathryn wrote:
Hogwarts Express - In CoS when Snape is reading out the sightings of Ron and
Harry in the Flying Ford Anglia he reads one out from Norfolk, which strikes
me as an odd place for the car to be flying over since it's following the
train. Lincolnshire I could understand but Norfolk is a little too far east
for a train which is going north from London.

Me:
   I have very little knowledge of British geography, but it seems to me 
that ALL of the Hogwarts children can't possibly go to London to catch the 
Hogwarts Express. So, I imagine that 1) there's more than one train that all 
leave from various locations and 2) the London train may make stops 
periodically on the way up.  Now there's no canon for this, it just seems 
logical to me that the train would stop after a certain point rather than 
making kids who live in the north go all the way down to London, just to go 
back up again. Why not just pick them up, even if it is a little out of the 
way? Also, the trip seems to take all day. I have no clue about how long a 
train ride up basically the extent of England would take, but as we have 
seen with the Knight Bus, in the WW, that doesn't really matter, they can 
just skip around to wherever they want.
  Any thoughts?

egbstone-- an emerging ex-lurker



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