[HPforGrownups] Re: Flying cars and platform 9 3/4

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 49169



"Jim Ferer " wrote:
> 
> Maxxx:"If the entrance to the magical world in the train station was
> only  through the magic wall in platform 9 3/4, then  how did Ron and
> Harry catch up with the Hogwarts Express by using the flying car?"
> 
> Platform 9 3/4 isn't *the* entrance into the magical world, or at
> least we aren't told that.  The  only thing that's sure is that the
> wall divides the rest of the train station from Platform 9 3/4 between
> Platforms 9 and 10.
> 
> It's not even certain if every student takes the Hogwarts Express. Do
> students who live in Scotland or someplace north of the school have to
> go to London to ride back? What if a kid was from Hogsmeade? There
> must be somebody.
> 
> If you could find the Leaky Cauldron, for instance, and somehow notice
> it (people's eyes slide right over it; they don't notice) could you go
> in?  Hermione's parents presumably did.
> 
> It's all one of those big "I dunno's".
> 
>

Hermione's parents likely had a guide from the school, like Hagrid did
for Harry, taking Hermione and her parents and showing them how to get
in and all the first time.  I think once a muggle has been SHOWN where
it is and knows it for what it is, it might negate the effects of any
spells that cause them to not notice it.  The 'knowledge' that it is
indeed there may be too strong for the spell to work..

Jazmyn