[HPforGrownups] Getting to Hogwarts

[Alina]

No: HPFGUIDX 102390


> Okay, perhaps this was beaten before, but I'm gonna beat on it again.
<Grin>
>
> We know that the Hogwarts Express leaves from King's Cross and just runs
> non-stop until it gets to Hogsmeade. Okay, that's why they call it an
> express, right? :-)
>
> But my real question is, if some of the students live closer, say they
live
> in Scotland or northern parts, does this mean they have to backtrack all
the
> way back to London just to take the express to Hogsmeade?
>
> I've often wondered this and, honestly, it's a real niggler for me.
>
> Help?? :-) My brain is frying over this.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Lee :-)

Well, they call it the Hogwarts Express, not the Hogsmeade Express, right?
There should be another way for wizards and witches to get to the village
itself. So, my guess is, that those Hogwarts students who live closer to
Hogwarts than London arrive in Hogsmeade (possibly stay in the Three
Broomsticks the way Harry and co. do in The Leaky Cauldron?) and then join
the rest of the students at the train station to be taken to the castle.
They probably arrive by Floo Powder (the local hotel/inn would be the
logical place to have a public use fireplace) or possibly there are
regularly scheduled Port Keys to the place?

Alina.