Books Thread

[FlaSoxxJim]

So, I was flipping through the 1st Harry Potter book on a whim and something odd caught my attention. I get to the part where Harry gets his ticket from Hagrid for King’s Cross, finds a ride, ends up at the train station and (here’s the part where this kicks in) has Absolutely NO IDEA what to do. He proceeds to ask a handful of regular people at the train station, speaking to them in what is essentially, babble, and each incident of odd, alone 11-year old talking in weird language goes unreported, but this is nitpicky stuff my main concern is this: How many human born students did Hogwarts end up screwing over, by not telling them the process of how to get on the Wizard train? Was every student supposed to rely on stumbling upon some other Wizard family who’ve apparently been trained in this endeavor? What if no one was there at that particular moment, do we have abandoned human wizard kids in a train station, with no means of getting to school or returning home, and who are now s*** out of luck? One would think there’d be some sort of check to this: an undercover wizard train adviser assigned too this particular issue, but no such person is ever mentioned in the novels. This is of some concern and needs to be addressed. Also, how much of this post is sober and serious? You’ll never know.

 

 

Well, if the entire student body of Hogwarts is instructed to report to Platform 9 3/4 at the same time on the same date, then it's pretty likely the Muggle-borns will run into a helpful wizarding family like the Weasleys. right?

 

I think that's all part of JK's literary surprises-round-every-corner literary device taht she employs throughout the first couple of books — this is a foreign world to Harry and he always needed a lot of help getting through it, even from the very beginning.