20 Idiotic Decisions Made By Characters In The Harry Potter Films
19. Using a Muggle train station As The Embarkation Point To Hogwarts When Portkeys And The Floo Network Exist
Kings Cross Station and Platform 9 and 3/4 make for very interesting and picturesque locations. Trains are magical conveyances even in the Muggle world, and have been the site of much intrigue and romance for decades of storytelling. But if theres a whole Ministry of Magic bureaucracy devoted to keeping the magical world secret, why are wizards using public transportation hubs in order to get to magical destinations? We find out about the existence of the Floo network (using fireplaces to travel between wizard abodes and businesses) in The Chamber of Secrets; and of Portkeys (objects with a spell cast upon them to transport the one possessing it to a specific destination) in The Goblet of Fire. Theres also the use of broomsticks and Apparation (the wizard version of Star Treks transporter) for those inclined to use those methods. With all of these alternative methods that wizards can use to travel, why are students still taking the Hogwarts Express? Children born into wizarding families already know about the wizard modes of transport, and children from Muggle families can be told to report to Diagon Alley in order to be transported directly to the school. And as a quick aside, why is Kings Cross the only embarkation point to Hogwarts?
