The Hogwarts Express (was Re: refreshment witch)

[Phil Boswell]

No: HPFGUIDX 105036

"Miller, Gina (JIS)" <ginamiller at j...> wrote:
[snip]
> Notice we have never seen the driver? Lupin said he must go
> have a word with the driver but we never know why or what was said or
> who he is. Does anyone other than me find this funny?

Not as strange as the idea that you could simply have a word with the
driver of a *steam* *locomotive*! I've tried to look on the Web but
haven't managed to find any good-enough pictures of the Hogwarts
Express, but I'm certain I recall there being a tender. (That's the
"coal bunker" pulled behind the locomotive in case the word is
different outside the UK.)

This would in a normal train make it totally impossible for anyone on
the train to visit the driver (stupid Bond-esque stunts aside :-).

But Lupin does, and so IIRC does Hermione.

HTH HAND
-- 
Phil