Getting to Hogwarts

[amanitamuscaria1]

No: HPFGUIDX 104268

> | From: Eustace_Scrubb
> | Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:10
> | Eustace_Scrubb:
> | Good question.  This may be movie contamination in part, but it 
seems
> | that the soot and smudges resulting from floo travel is one of the
> | things that sets the Weasleys' socioeconomically below the
> | well-groomed Malfoys.
<snip> 
> [Lee]:
> Well, Eustace, My Friend, I can't agree with you about the socio-
economic
> thing and floo powder.
<snip> Now, considering the bit with the age restriction on 
apparation and that
> portkeys are controlled (mentioned by Fudge near the end of OOTP), 
and
> broomsticks are awfully visible, the only thing left that any 
witch/wizard
> can use is...floo powder.  So, the whole thing about socio-economic 
falls
> apart, IMO.
> Lee :-)

AmanitaMuscaria now - Surely what you've just posted, Lee, points 
firmly at the 'socioeconomic distinction'. Who better than the 
Malfoys to be able to get a portkey set up for their convenience? All 
Lucius would have to do is jingle his pocket at Fudge.
As we see, when Fudge thinks it's in his interest to believe and 
protect Harry, Arthur has no problems in getting a couple of Ministry 
cars to ferry them from the Leaky Cauldron to Kings Cross. One thing 
we very much see is that the rules are infinitely bendy in the wizard 
world. 
Cheers. AmanitaMuscaria