Platform 9 and 3/4

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No: HPFGUIDX 112742

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> 
wrote:
> 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. 


Hmm, interesting, but with GP DD was the secret keeper and no-one 
else could pass on the secret, that is why Moody handed Harry a paper 
written in DD's writing.  In PS Harry told Uncle Vernon where he was 
going, which prompted Uncle Vernon to have a rather amusing little 
dig at Harry by telling him there was no such place and leaving him 
stranded at the station.  Harry could still not see the platform, 
even though he knew it was there.  In OotP as soon as Harry read the 
address GP appeared to him.  And it sounds like no-one could actually 
tell him the address except DD, hence the note being in his writing.  
I do like the protection theory though!