[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter Discussion: Chapter Fifteen, Goblet of Fire: Beauxbatons and Durmstrang

[Sandra Lynn]

No: HPFGUIDX 192228

Shelley again:
To me, the carriage and the boat would be just like the tents that
appeared at the Quidditch match: a lot of work and thought and magic
would go into making these items, and even though they weren't used
everyday, they were dead useful when you needed them. Maybe the boat
looked ancient because IT WAS- I mean, if you have a perfectly useful
magic item, you'd just keep using it, wouldn't you? Hand it down through
the generations? Loan it out to others as needed? I could see family
vacations on a boat like that, and it's so roomy that you could take
several other families with you and no one would be in each other's
hair. We assume that those items belonged to the SCHOOLS, but that was
not necessarily so. They could have been owned by a wealthy family with
permission for the schools to borrow to use on field trips (much like a
school bus or tour bus would be rented in the US) for special events.
Certainly the headmasters of the schools would know the prominent,
wealthy families and who would own magical transportation devices to ask
when they had a need. I could see a wealthy family living out of a boat
like this if they wanted to travel all over and see the sights, and
maybe even have a fireplace connected inside to the network of other
fireplaces- with a ship like this you could see the world and yet still
go to work every day if needed. Oh the possibilities!


Crescent:
I have to say that this makes perfect sense to me. I assumed that it used
magical underground waterways or just magically appeared from one body of
water into another. And the idea that it could have been from a wealthy
family makes perfect sense. Either that or it was school property. Maybe it
was like the Hogwarts Express for Durmstrang students and was used to bring
them to and from school. That would help to keep the location secret as
well.


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