Platform 9 and 3/4

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 112709

> > Karen adds:
> > 
> > I think platform 9 3/4 is a very protected place because
> everybodies 
> > children are on that platform for 7 years of thelr lives.  I 
cannot 
> > see the DE's attacking a place where their offspring might end up
> in 
> > the cross fire.  
> > 
> <snip>
> > IMO - The platform 9 3/4 needs to be a safe place guarded by 
> > something only the Department of Mysteries knows about.
> > 
> > Karen

Is it uncouth to jump back into a thread you started? Hope not, 
cause here I go. I had a brainstorm at work today, thinking about 
some of the other things that always struck me as weird about SS and 
another one of those is the fact that Hagrid hands Harry a ticket 
for his journey telling Harry the time, platform and date of his 
departure. But there is never any other mention of tickets for other 
students, for Harry's later journeys or of any sort of conductor 
coming round to collect them. Then following a reread of Order 
something seemed similar to me: at the end of the Advance Guard 
chapter Moody hands Harry a piece of paper with the location (in 
DD's writing) of Order HQ so that Harry can get in. Perhaps, and 
this is a stretch, Platform 9 and 3/4 is protected by a charm 
similar to the Fidelus and that a Muggle raised kid like Harry needs 
to be let in on the secret as it were so he or she can reach the 
platform? Just guessing. 
Meri