chapter discussions, SS/PS, chapter 5, Diagon Alley

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 187872

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jelly92784" <jelly92784 at ...> wrote:

> 9 At the end of the chapter, Hagrid puts Harry on a train for home.  For a child who had never been to London and probably not far from Privet drive on his own, how did he get back to the Dursleys?
 
 Janelle:
> Interesting question, I guess we can't really know the answer but here are a few possiblities:  Maybe the Dursley's live quite close to the train station and Harry could walk home?  Maybe Hagrid/Dumbledore will have arranged for the Dursley's to pick him up?  Maybe Mrs. Figg happens to be nearby and takes him him?

Geoff:
Harry may not have been to London previously but Hagrid saw him 
to Paddington railway station and onto his train.

Although he may not be familiar with being away from Little Whinging, 
and also perhaps rather nervous, Harry is by no means an idiot. Hagrid 
probably told him where to get off the train - Harry might already know 
this anyway if there is a station at Little Whinging. I suspect he would 
have to make his own way back, possibly on foot; I can hardly see the 
Dursleys picking him up.