[HPforGrownups] Re: Getting to Hogwarts

[Mrs.) Lee Storm (God Is The Healing Force]

No: HPFGUIDX 104307

From: Steve [mailto:asian_lovr2 at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 17:02
|
| asian_lovr:
|
| Keep in mind that only underage wizards and wizards who are too weak
| or feeble would have to use Floo. The average adult wizard can
| apparate directly to Diagon Alley.
|
| Still, Floo travel with heavy trunks and packages has to be very
| difficult. My impression was that you had to keep you elbows tucked in
| while you Floo traveled, per Ron's intructions to Harry, so you didn't
| elbow other Floo travelers as you passed by.

[Lee]:
Upon re-reading that segment, all Ron says is to keep elbows in, not
anything about banging another person, and not to fidget because one might
fall into the wrong fireplace.  I am going to infer that tucking the elbows
in might be prudent to keep from catching on the wrong fireplace, or causing
an imbalance in the "spinning" which might throw one into the wrong
fireplace, slowing one down prematurely.  Again, only suppositions. :-)

[Steve]:
| I think we can speculate many possible solutions, but I also suspect
| that even the best of them will still be flawed.
|
| Just a thought.

[Lee]:
Another thought...The Leaky Cauldron must have been bigger since there are
rooms to stay in and a private parlor or more, plus the main area one sees
when one comes in from the Muggle London side...so there's obviously more
space in there than that which is immediately perceptible.

Cheers,

Lee :-)

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