It was a perfectly ordinary station, with big plastic numbers over each track and guards who had never heard of the Hogwarts School. In northwestern London lay King's Cross Station, a Muggle railway station that was one of the busiest in the city. It didn’t hurt, but it had to be done carefully so that none of the Muggles noticed you vanishing." - Harry Potter explaining how to enter the platform What you had to do was walk through the solid barrier dividing platforms nine and ten. The tricky part was getting onto platform nine and three-quarters, which wasn’t visible to the Muggle eye. " Harry had caught the Hogwarts Express the previous year. When returning from Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, there was a guard stationed just outside the ticket barrier, in order to regulate exits from the platform through the gate, in order to not alarm the Muggles. In order for someone to get onto Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, they had to walk directly at the apparently solid barrier dividing Platforms Nine and Ten. Magically concealed behind the barrier between Muggle Platforms Nine and Ten, this Platform was where Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry students boarded the Hogwarts Express every 1 September, in order to attend school. Platform Nine and Three-Quarters ( Platform 9¾) was a platform at King's Cross Station in London. It can be accessed by walking straight through the apparently solid barrier between platforms nine and ten." - Description of the platform's purpose and the means of entry " Platform nine and three-quarters is the train platform from which students board the Hogwarts Express, the scarlet steam engine that brings students to and from Hogwarts.
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