# harry potter stuff that bothers you

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> [@GuanoLad](#):
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> I think the Railway staff at King’s Cross should be fully aware of the existence of Platform 9 3/4.

Maybe they are; and are sworn to secrecy 🙂 …  
Re Quidditch in general: I’ve always had the feeling that Rowling is a non-sports-fan, in fact a disliker of sports – and has had fun inventing, in Quidditch, a completely insane, wildly complicated, and overall impractical sport; which nonetheless has large numbers of fanatical devotees, and “learned scholars” about its intricacies.

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