[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwarts in Scotland - Curious Steve

[eloiseherisson at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 49626

In a message dated 10/01/2003 22:42:42 GMT Standard Time, bboy_mn at yahoo.com 
writes:


> 
> I'm curious, do you think the train from Kings Cross to Hogwarts goes
> through Glasgow or Edinburgh

I believe the Glasgow trains leave from London Euston. They don't go from 
Kings Cross.

There are three big railway stations all in a row along the same stretch of 
road: Kings Cross, St Pancras (with which JKR was confusing Kings Cross, when 
she envisaged Platform 9 3/4 - I think - I know she wasn't thinking of Kings 
Cross, but I can't find the ref) and Euston.

But given that it's a magical train, I shouldn't think it much matters. It 
can probably jump track, in the same way as the Knight Bus or the MoM cars 
can squeeze through impossible spaces.

Honoria Granger:

>Scotland is the only place it could be, and of course JKR 
>being Scottish and all..

Just a LOON point. JKR isn't Scottish, except possibly by adoption, although 
I believe her mother was part Scots. She lives in Scotland and I believe her 
husband is Scottish. She was born in Chipping Sodbury, in the west of England 
(any surprise she likes odd names?) and lived her early life near Chepstow, 
on the English/Welsh borders.

~Eloise




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