On Tuesday, November 19, 2002 at 8:50:34 PM UTC-8, Paul Ryan wrote:   
   > > By the way, it just occurred to me - why didn't Harry and Ron just wait   
   > > for Ron's parents to come back to the car?  Surely they wouldn't have   
   > > Apparated home and left the car in London.  Once the boys had   
   > > demonstrated that the gate wouldn't open for them, Arthur could have   
   > > pulled some strings to get them to school somehow, maybe by Floo powder to   
   > > a standard arrival location in Hogsmeade and from there to the school.   
   >   
   > They couldn't get back from the Platform.   
      
   I don't recall it being stated in either book or movie that Mr and Mrs Weasely   
   couldn't get back through the gate.  I would have liked to have seen them   
   banging on the gate with their fists!   
      
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