[HPforGrownups] Re: Getting to Hogwarts

[thursday morning]

No: HPFGUIDX 104101

> "thursday morning" <thursdaymorning at o...> wrote:
> [snipped heavily: you have been warned]
> > Is it possible that Diagon Alley itself is 1.5 miles long?
> > ... Easily bordered
> > with The Leaky Cauldron at one end and Kings Cross Station at the
> > other

Phil: 
> So why would the Weasleys et al have to travel by Ministry car in
> HP&POA? Sorry but I think canon disproves your admittedly lovely
> theory.

thursday:
I agree there is no canon to support the theory, but then I'm just
having fun developing theories so I'm not going to get my feeling
hurt when they're smacked down.  That said I don't think the use of
the ministry cars disproves the theory.  1.5 miles is a long way to
hump trunks, animals, lunches, etc. even with magic to make the
trunks lighter.  It might have just been easier to take the long
way around by car than going on foot or by floo.  Besides Arthur
*likes* muggle things like cars.  I wouldn't be a bit surprised if
he took every reasonable opportunity that came along to interact
with them.  Either way I've had fun thinking about it.  Thanks
for giving me more to think about.  Puzzles are always more fun when
you have to work at them a bit. 

thursday: 
> >   I'm behind in my reading-do we ever see
> > where the Weasley's come out when they floo there.  We know you can
> > floo directly to a particular store but they didn't say a store name
> > in CoS, just "Diagon Alley."  Doesn't it make sense then that
> > there's a general arrival area?

Phil: 
> My impression was that people generally ended up in the "Leaky
> Cauldron" but I could be vastly wrong. AFAICR we never actually found
> out where anyone except for Harry arrived.

thursday:
That was my first thought too but:
1. they didn't say "the Leaky Cauldron" just "Diagon Alley"
   Of course, the Leaky Cauldron could be set as the default
   entrance for Diagon Alley.
2. That's a lot of people to be passing through what doesn't
   seem to be a very big pub ("It was a tiny, grubby-looking pub."
   SS/PS pg68 USPB.)  Also the courtyard out back which they have
   to pass through is described as small.  True, the pub could be
   quite a bit bigger inside than out but I still don't think this
   works.  Diagon Alley just seemed too busy for everyone, or nearly
   so, to go through one little pub.  Especially in the autumn when
   so many are shopping for school books/supplies. 

Eagerly waiting for more to think about,

thursday
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