(01-16-2023, 05:41 PM)Moonshroom Wrote: So... I originally saw this as a MEME but it is so much true.
The students who live in Scotland, Ireland and northern England have to painstakingly travel all the way down to London just to take the train that would take them back up to Hogwarts? It is ugly as a sin and super inefficient.
Yeah, definitely

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You'd think that, in the real world, there would be more trains to bring people in from other parts of the country (and perhaps a flying ship or something for all the Irish students). But that one train is big enough to accommodate all Hogwarts students, which suggests that everyone is going from there!
(Maybe it's only wizards from London and the South East who get on at King's Cross, and there are intermediate stops for students in the North and the Midlands? But even then, students in Ireland, Wales, and the South West are a bit screwed

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(01-16-2023, 05:48 PM)JHG Wrote: At no point does anyone think a bunch of muggles with rifles and a choppa might be useful. It’s only the biggest wizard of war in forever! And it’s not like the Death Eaters would keep the facade as they want to commit genocide on the muggles. So, at the very least the Order of the Phoenix should’ve been recruiting muggles.
I'm honestly interested in whether Muggles have co-operated with wizards in any previous battles

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Granted, wizards take their own secrecy very seriously - but Muggles who are related to wizards still know about the Wizarding World's existence, and I expect many of those would be willing to help their magical relatives!