King's Cross Station

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No: HPFGUIDX 78945

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Wanda Sherratt" <wsherratt3338 at r...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, MadameSSnape at a... wrote:
> > In a message dated 8/25/2003 9:36:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> > EnsTren at a... writes:
> > 
> > > In a message dated 8/25/2003 9:13:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> > > jazmyn at p... writes:
> > > 
> > > >"THE "WARRIOR QUEEN" UNDER PLATFORM 9
> > > >Boudica, or Boadicea, was a British queen who went to war 
> against the 
> > > >Roman settlers. She destroyed the city of Londinium. She is 
> said to be 
> > > >buried under platform 9 or 10 of King's Cross Station."
> > > >
> > > 
> > > I'm wrackign my brain here and I seem to recall something about 
> Boudica 
> > > being 
> > > involved in the authoritian myth.  I just don't remember how.
> > 
> > Actually, she lived some four centuries before the historical 
> Artorius, & 
> > about 1000 years before the (usual) setting of the legendary Arthur
> 
> It's a very interesting point, but how widespread is the knowledge 
> about her being buried at King's Cross Station?  I've heard of 
> Boadicea, but I'd never heard of this detail about her last resting 
> place.  Is this commonly known in Britain?  It could just be a 
> coincidence - I honestly can't see how she could figure into the HP 
> stories.
> 
> Wanda

Boudicca is in my top 5 of Brits to be emulated; pity she lost.

Anyway, the Kings Cross burial is folk legend. It is known that her
army marched in pursuit of Suetonius 'towards the west or north-west' 
after sacking St Albans and London and met the XIV Legion, strengthened 
by elements of the XX, plus auxiliary troops. There was a delay because
Suetonius waited for  troops marching from Wales. The eventual battle is
thought to have been fought around High Cross on Watling Street, a 
considerable distance from London for an army mostly on foot. She 
escaped after the defeat and is thought to have tried to return to
the tribal heartland. Legend states that she took poison when she
realised what a defeat on this scale would mean. (The tribe was 
deliberately subjected to offically approved extinction, the few
survivors sold into slavery.)  Her burial place was
never found, even though the Romans searched for it. Most think
it highly unlikey that her body would be smuggled back to London
and buried just outside the Roman fortifications.

Kneasy