Magical Travel (& Groups Search Info)

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 84159

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "bohcoo" <sydenmill at m...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote in 
> message 84130:
> 
>  
> > Magical travel is such a fun subject.
> > 
> > Just a thought.
> > 
> > bboy_mn
> 
> 
> 
> Bohcoo responds:
> SS, ch. 6, page 89, American edition. Uncle Vernon speaking to Harry:
> 
> "'Funny way to get to a wizards' school, the train. Magic carpets
> all got punctures, have they?'"
> 
> (Do you know if there is an analysis of all the forms of magical 
> travel and the pluses and minuses of each form of travel?)
> 
> Thoughts back,
> Bohcoo :)

bboy_mn:

I don't think there is one comprehensive indepth analysis of magical
travel in the group, but there is a lot of great information.

However, as much as I hate to blow my own horn (no I don't! Woo-Hoo!
Toot to to toot to toot!) if you search this group for... 

bboy_mn portkey 

...you will find links to tons and tons of in-depth discussion of
magical travel. This is well worth doing we have had some very good
very recent discussions on magical travel from portkeys to the nature
of Threstral travel.


Note to the Group:
Here is something I have discovered about the [Search Archive] feature
attached to this group, when you search and look at the results, you
eventually come to a screen that say "No matches found in the messages
searched".

Up until recently I would given up at that point, but I discovered
that the search feature searchs blocks of posts, and not the entire
archive. Saying, "No matches found in the messages searched", doesn't
mean there aren't any matches in the group, if only means that in the
small block of 5,000 of the most current posts, it didn't find a match. 

Click the [NEXT] button and it will search another 5,000 posts and
give you the results. Even if is says there aren't any results, as
long as the [NEXT] button is active, you can keep searching.

Remember that there are nearly 100,000 posts in the active part of
this group, and probably as many in the HP4GU-Archive. So keep
clicking that [NEXT] button; you are limited only by how far back in
time you want to search (earliest available post is from August 28,
2000), and of course, how much time you want to spend searching.

If you have some favorite posters in the group, try combining their
handle (bboy_mn) with the subject you want to seach (portkey), that
can help weed out a lot of extra unwanted posts.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn