Hermione getting to the Burrow

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 118493


Juli asked:
 How does Hermione gets to The Burrow every summer?
 
> 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

Ginger:
ok, Carol has obviously put way more thought into this than I have.  
I am having an intellectual interlude at the moment.  Do we know 
where Hermione lives?  For some reason I was thinking it was London, 
but that may just be the fruitflies in my head telling me stories.  
At any rate, we know she's in the UK.  I just assumed (thinking that 
she was in London) that she just hopped the tube, got out near the 
Leaky Cauldron and asked Tom if she might borrow some Floo powder.  

Even if she isn't in London, I'm sure there's a train or bus she 
could take to get there and procede with the aforementioned plan.

Of course, her family does travel, so it's always good to have a Plan 
B.  Say, Carol, have you ever thought of being a WW travel agent?  

Ginger, telling the fruitflies to shut up.