Getting to Hogwarts

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 102543

Melissa wrote:
> I've always had the impression that ALL students arrive on the 
Express.  
> Seamus is Irish (presuming his folks still live in Ireland) and 
that's closer to 
> Scotland than London.
> 
> Perhaps the students that have the furthest distance to travel to 
get to 
> London are portkeyed into a safe spot. . like they did for the QWC?

Ginger:  I wondered that too.  Someone once wondered, and I agree, 
that the trip is part of the Hogwarts Experience.  Otherwise, why not 
have them all Floo to Hogsmead?  

I do think that Floo is part of the answer.  Using Seamus as an 
example, he and Mum could Floo to Diagon Alley (like Harry and Co. 
did in CoS) and hail a cab from there.  His dad's a Muggle, so he 
could have taught them how to do it.  

Muggle-borns would have no trouble getting there, but I wonder about 
pure Wizard families with no Muggle knowledge.  The Weasleys seem to 
have it down, but they have plenty of practice.  Perhaps the Knight 
Bus is booked solid that day?  I wonder about the Malfoys.

Ginger, imagining the Knight Bus pulling up in front of King's Cross.