Transportation

Hagrid's ride • Trivia How did Hagrid travel to the Hut on the Rock? With this passage in OP21, fans guessed that Hagrid might have come to the Hut by riding a thestral: “… they aren’ unlucky, they’re dead clever an’ useful! Course, this lot don’ get a lot o’ work, it’s mainly… Read More

Handbook of Do-It-Yourself Broomcare • Books and Literature Handbook of Do-It-Yourself Broomcare is a guide to taking care of your broomstick. Read More

Little Hangleton graveyard • Churches and graveyards After Voldemort killed his father and paternal grandparents, they were buried in the graveyard by the church in Little Hangleton (GF1). This, then, is also where Harry was taken by Portkey, saw Cedric Diggory killed and Voldemort reborn, and duelled Voldemort in 1995 (GF34). Read More

Harry asks a guard about the train to Hogwarts • Event After the Dursleys leave Harry near the clearly marked Platforms 9 and 10, he decides to ask the guard about the train to Hogwarts but refrains from asking about the apparently absent Platform 9 3/4. The guard gets annoyed with Harry when it turns out he doesn’t even know where… Read More

Harry and Dumbledore Talk at King's Cross • Event After Voldemort struck him down with the Killing Curse in the Forbidden Forest (DH33), Harry finds himself lying naked and without his glasses on a sort of floor surrounded by a bright white mist. Slowly his surroundings take on the shape of King’s Cross Station in London, and when… Read More

Harry escapes the Little Hangleton graveyard by portkey • Event As Voldemort and Harry duel in front of the Death Eaters, the twin phoenix feather cores of their wands create a “Reverse Spell Effect” known as Priori Incantatem, and shades of Voldemort’s previous victims come out of his yew wand and protect Harry, including… Read More

Harry and his fellow First Years cross the Lake in boats to Hogwarts • Event Their first view of Hogwarts is a shining castle reflected in the dark Lake. They glide through a curtain of ivy to a small, hidden pebble beach where they disembark, walk up a path, and come to the massive wooden front doors. Read More

Harry and his friends travel to Hogwarts aboard the Hogwarts Express, and begin their fourth year • Event Harry, Hermione, and most of the Weasleys travel by way of three Muggle taxis from the Burrow to King’s Cross, crammed in with their luggage and overexcited pets. After the group reaches Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, Mrs. Weasley, Bill, and Charlie hint at the surprise tournament awaiting the students at Hogwarts… Read More

Harry, Ginny, Ron, Hermione and Draco arrive at Hogwarts to search for Albus and Scorpius • Event Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Draco Malfoy start arriving in Headteacher McGonagall’s office at Hogwarts via the Floo Network, making a mess of her carpet. They agree to search the Forbidden Forest for Albus and Scorpius (CC2.3). Read More

Harry, Hermione, the Weasleys, and the Diggorys travel by Portkey to the Quidditch world Cup • Event At Stoatshead Hill, Amos and Cedric Diggory, Arthur, Fred, George, Ron, and Ginny Weasley, Harry, and Hermione touch a timed portkey in the form of an old boot. Harry experiences a bizarre sensation like being pulled by a hook located somewhere behind his bellybutton as the party is transported to… Read More

Harry and Ron miss the Hogwarts Express and fly Mr. Weasley's bewitched car to Hogwarts • Event When they crash into the barrier between platforms nine and ten (and Hedwig makes a noisy fuss about it), Harry and Ron attract the attention of Muggles at King’s Cross. Unable to follow the rest of the Weasleys to platform nine and three quarters, Ron and Harry miss the Hogwarts… Read More

Harry travels by Hogwarts Express to Hogwarts, meeting Ron Weasley along the way • Event Harry catches the Hogwarts Express at 11 am at King’s Cross Station, where he is helped by Molly Weasley and encounters several members of the Weasley family. He and his fellow students then travel until evening to Hogwarts. Harry properly meets Ron Weasley and they share a compartment; he and Ron immediately… Read More

Harry and the Weasleys pack the Ford Anglia and drive to King's Cross • Event Molly doesn’t notice that the car has been magically modified, even when eight people plus all their luggage fit comfortably. A few miles down the road, Ginny realizes she forgot her diary — the diary which is really a horcrux — and they go back for it. Read More

HBP8: Snape Victorious • Source Before the Hogwarts Express leaves, Tonks rescues Harry from the Full-Body Bind Curse put on him by Malfoy. She escorts him to the castle, but Snape come to collect him and he leads Harry into the feast, criticizing Harry all the way.  Once inside, Harry discusses his… Read More

Hermione arrives at Grimmauld Place for the holidays • Event She was planning to go skiing with her parents. Instead she chose to take the Knight Bus to Grimmauld Place to join Ron and Harry and the rest of the Weasley family when the term ended. Read More

HogEx: The Hogwarts Express (essays) • Source HogEx refers to a series of essays written by Rowling about the Hogwarts Express and Platform 9 and 3/4. The essays first appeared on Pottermore. Hogwarts Express King’s Cross Station Platform Nine and Three-Quarters… Read More

Hogsmeade • Wizarding villages Hogsmeade is the only entirely wizarding village in Britain (PA5). According to tradition it was founded over a thousand years ago, around the same time as Hogwarts, by Hengist of Woodcroft as he was fleeing persecution by Muggles (FW, Pm). It’s a picturesque little village of thatched cottages and… Read More

Hogsmeade station • Public places • Railway places • Wizarding places The railway station that serves both the town of Hogsmeade and Hogwarts School. A “tiny, dark platform” where the Hogwarts Express ends its journey north from Platform Nine-And-Three-Quarters (PS6). The station is located near the lake, and from there a road extends around the lake to Hogwarts Castle (PA5,… Read More

Hogwarts Boats • Hogwarts • Transportation The arriving first-years travel across the Lake to the castle in a flotilla of small boats, propelled by magic and escorted by Hagrid (PS6).  … Read More

Hogwarts Express • Railway places

What Came Before the Hogwarts Express? • Article

Posted June 4, 2006 by Owen de Lyon in Canon discussion / Essays

The Hogwarts Express has been the subject of various essays exploring its nature and function. As has been plausibly noted elsewhere on this site, it isn’t really a steam engine, but rather a magical transportation device that mimics a Muggle equivalent in external form and function. This is consistent with the general trend in Wizard “technology,” which seems… Read More

Hogwarts Express • Transportation The Hogwarts Express is a passenger train which makes a run between King’s Cross Station, London, and Hogsmeade Station, taking students to and from Hogwarts. The train makes this run at least four times a year, and probably more often than that, as needed. It does leave without… Read More

The Hogwarts Express, or In Search of . . . Platform Nine and Three-Quarters  • Article

Posted July 15, 2007 by Ravenclaw Rambler in Essays

A number of questions are often asked about the Hogwarts Express—how can it be hidden at King’s Cross so effectively?—why is there always just one compartment left? how can it travel around without being seen? The Hogwarts Express—Muggle features Muggles, it is suggested in OP7, developed technology because they don’t have magic, so… Read More

Horton-Keitch Braking Charm • Spells Makes a racing broom easier to handle. Read More

Hover Charm — "none given" • Spells The Hover Charm makes an object float in the air.  … Read More

Hurling Hex • Spells A nasty kind of hex that can be placed on a broom. The effect is presumably to make the target broom attempt to hurl its rider off. Read More