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location=Kings Cross Station, London, England|
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appearance=[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 6|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']]
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== General Overview ==
'''''Platform Nine and Three Quarters''''' is a secret platform at King's Cross Station in London.
== Extended Description ==
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'''''Platform Nine and Three Quarters''''' is reached by leaning against, or running through, the barrier between platforms 9 and 10 at King's Cross Station. It is apparently physically located within the confines of the station, though perhaps at a lower level, as the train does seem to pass through an appropriate area of London as it leaves the city.
The platform has been used in the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban/
== Analysis ==
While the platform might well have been intended to be the place where we change from Muggle to magical life, it has only actually acted as that transition once, in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone''. In the other four books where it is a factor, and in ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' where it is inaccessible, Harry has been living in the magical world for at least a short time before the trip to the station: three times at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/The Burrow|The Burrow]], once at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/The Leaky Cauldron|the Leaky Cauldron]] in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Diagon Alley|Diagon Alley]], and once at [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Grimmauld Place|Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place]].
That is not to say that it is not a transition; in each case, it is a return to school, and thus to a place where Harry's own use of magic is not only permitted, but required. Harry, as an [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Underage Sorcery|underage wizard]], is of course not allowed to use magic anywhere except school. It seems that the largely unsupervised Hogwarts Express is seen as an extension of school, for the purposes of determining whether magic is allowed. Thus, the transition from the repressed world of the underage wizard, to the free world of the wizard who is able to cast spells, seems to happen on the platform.
The reverse transition, of course, happens in the other direction. Stepping off the train and onto the platform is a return to the world of the underage wizard, a return to the world where magic must be repressed or hidden for fear of frightening the Muggles. We see, in each of the first five books, Harry's reluctance to approach that transition, to return to the unexciting life he perforce must share with the Dursleys.
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{{Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Intermediate Spoiler}}
In the [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Deathly Hallows|seventh and final book]], of course, Harry does not attend school, and so this transition 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 [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Privet Drive|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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