Platform Nine and Three-Quarters (Platform 9¾) was a platform at King’s Cross Station in London. 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.
The platform has been used in the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth year, as the place for last-minute questions and warnings, as Harry, Ron, and Hermione depart the place they have been through the summer for another year at Hogwarts. In the first year, of course, it was the stage for the initial meeting between the Weasley children then attending Hogwarts (Ron, Fred, George, and Percy), and Harry; it proved inaccessible in the second year due to the well-intentioned but misguided actions of Dobby the house-elf; and as Harry did not attend school in his seventh year, we did not reach this platform. However, Harry visits the platform with his children in the epilogue, and for them, as for Harry in earlier years, it is clearly a place of transition.
In the seventh and final book, of course, Harry does not attend school, and so the transition from Muggle to Wizarding worlds does not occur. However, in the opening chapters of that book, Harry reaches his seventeenth birthday and comes of age. At this point, he is allowed to do magic on his own, and so the transition from repression to encouragement of magic does not require boarding the Hogwarts Express. As he has also left the Dursley house for the last time, there have already been fairly major transitions, so adding another one would be superfluous.
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