Platform 9 and 3/4

[finwitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 112819

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "redlena_web" > 
> I have always thought that there must be other wizard 
tracks/platforms in between the 
> other Muggle ones.  But I have never expected them to be brought 
into the Harry Potter 
> stories.  I just envision them there as part of the complete world.

Finwitch:

As have I. Further, my envision is that wizards use fractions 
(rationals, but not the socalled natural, whole numbers) for their 
travels within the same world. I think it's possible (at least after 
Nicolas Flamel came up with the Philosopher's Stone) that wizards 
managed to travel into other Worlds - and simply use an irrational 
Platform to get there! Like Pi, or Square-root of 2... There COULD be 
some imaginary figures, too...

And I agree that Molly asking Ginny the platform number is merely 
checking whether Ginny knows it right! Particularly if Fred&George 
had messed up the numbers as a joke! (and I think they would have, 
too - just because their mother repeats the same thing every year, 
and has, ever since Bill went to Hogwarts!)

Finwitch