How would hogwarts travel

[angel0071987]

Just doing my annual re-reading of Harry Potter books, and it’s got me thinking. Beauxbâtons travel with their carriage and magical horses to pull it. Durmstrang arrive in their ship. What would hogwarts use?

I like your thinking, OP.

Would the Hogwarts express be repurposed for continental travel? Each house in the own carriage as seems to happen on the journey from St Pancras.

Except for the scene at St Pancras and the use of the journey for plot development, I've always struggled with the idea of everyone travelling from St Pancras. Suppose you lived in or a few miles from Hogsmeade, would you have to travel down to London to buy your books then catch the train for hours so you could get through the enchantments and barriers?

Well yes. Just as if you're at boarding school and need to go to a particular outfitters. Between flue powder and portkeys it can't be too onerous: it's not as if they have to get the coach!

Surely that would only work if recipient place had tracks and a station. And would be hard for intercontinental travel unless they have some sort of knight bus for trains to skip through eurotunnel etc.

@Zilla1

I like your thinking, OP.

Would the Hogwarts express be repurposed for continental travel? Each house in the own carriage as seems to happen on the journey from St Pancras.

Except for the scene at St Pancras and the use of the journey for plot development, I've always struggled with the idea of everyone travelling from St Pancras. Suppose you lived in or a few miles from Hogsmeade, would you have to travel down to London to buy your books then catch the train for hours so you could get through the enchantments and barriers?

Kings Cross.

Felicity, I'm embarrassed (so will grasp at the straw of King's Cross/St Pancras being effectively the same train station(s) and underground complex).

Angel, can't the Hogwarts express lay magical track to Durmstrang and Beauxbatons for the Triwizard tournament. If not, perhaps a school coach charabanc-equivalent like the Knightbus. No seatbelts though like UK school buses in the past.

Or a squadron of thestrals though that might be too similar to the Beaubatons method of propulsion. (am impressed with the effort of using a circumflex? in the OP)

100% would lay down magical tracks and on the hogwarts express. They would turn in to double deckers and have the rooms upstairs!

They'd ask Mr Weasley to arrange a fleet of flying cars / mini buses.

The toilet network like the ministry? National express versions of the knight bus?

No, they'd just have a magical version of Eurostar. Which does go from St Pancras.

Maybe the Hogwarts Express would fly?
With an invisibility button too of course lol.

I think more a knight bus arrangement, because it wouldn’t be the whole school travelling

I would expect they would use the threstrals

I've always imagined they'd use thestrals.

Although I read an interesting theory once that they could get there via the Room of Requirement. Just stand outside the room and tell it you need to get to Durmstrang/Beauxbatons and it would become a room there instead

Interesting theories! Yes I do like the idea of hogwarts express as steam train is very british and civilised (like orient express) and magical tracks or flying version sounds plausible. Can certainly visualise the train arriving in a plume or smoke and having that as grand entrance for them all as it pulls up at a school/station with a big whistle. And could be very luxurious too. Probably more so than the durmstrang ship cabins although who knows what they decked out as.
@Cheerybigbottom the toilet idea made me laugh as can only imagine the looks beaubaxtoners would give to see everyone traipsing out of the loos. And doubt moaning myrtle would be impressed either.
@TheFormerPorpentinaScamander room of requirement would be good but they'd have to lift all of the protection and enchantments around hogwarts wouldn't they? As only worked as room in/out via the cabinet pairs or the picture of Ariana. Although suppose they could make some sort of matching link too. Plus if the room worked like that you'd have the entire school in honeydukes etc all the time.
Thestrals are also cool but not the most weatherproof or suitable for very long distance journeys but certainly would make an entrance.

I didn't think the room of Requirement would work either, or as you say people would do it all the time. I guess Thestrals could pull a coach, but that's what Beauxbatons did so doubtful as they like to show off.

If you think logically, the whole HE travel thing is unnecessary. Probably more of a tradition in the style of Boarding Schools of the Past.

I think they would use the HE. And it can actually fly or transport itself in the manner of the knight bus.