Hermione getting to the Burrow

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 118476


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlnbtr" <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> 
> On a previous post I wrote the bellow message and nobody abswer my 
> main question: How does Hermione gets to The Burrow every summer?
> 
> Juli <jlnbtr at y...> wrote:
> > 
> > I was driving to work and a thought came to my mind,
> > how does Hermione goes to The Burrow and other magical
> > places? At Christmas in OoP Hermione arrives at 12 GP
> > by the Night Bus, that we know, we also know that on
> > CoS she gets to Diagon Alley with her muggle parents
> > in muggle transport I guess.  But do her parents drive
> > her to the Burrow every summer? Or is her fireplace
> > connected to the Floo Network? Or a port-key (but made
> > by whom?). I laugh at loud thinking of it: her very
> > normal parents at the Burrow, Arthur showing them his
> > muggle's artifacts collection, they must think he's
> > crazy (just like Molly does). 
> >

Carol responds:
Since I know how it feels to have my posts go unanswered (or snipped
down to the sign-off line), I'll take a stab at it. We don't know the
answer, of course, because the narrator is telling the story from
Harry's POV, not Hermione's, but I would guess that her family's house
is not connected to the Floo network (that would probably violate MoM
regulations), nor would the many Muggleborn students be issued
portkeys. I'm guessing that her parents drive her to the Weasleys',
since their home can be reached by a Muggle taxi (GoF). Or, if her
parents are unavailable, she can flag down the Knight Bus. Of course,
if she happens to be on the Continent when she's invited to the
Burrrow, she'd probably have to grit her teeth and take a Muggle jet
to get back to England. Who knows whether there's an equivalent to the
Knight Bus in France?

Carol, hoping this is a satisfactory response