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The hidden platform at King's Cross Station where the Hogwarts Express departs — this year, the journey home carries the weight of Cedric's death and the knowledge that Voldemort has returned.
The platform at the end of fourth year feels different. Students board the Hogwarts Express knowing that a classmate died in the Tournament and that the adults are arguing about whether to believe a fourteen-year-old boy's account of how. The Weasleys, Hermione, and Harry ride home together in a compartment that tries for normalcy and doesn't quite get there. Harry gives Fred and George his Triwizard winnings to fund their joke shop — a thousand Galleons pressed into their hands with the instruction not to tell their mother.
A bustling platform wreathed in scarlet steam from the Hogwarts Express. Families in robes and Muggle clothes. The train's compartments are quieter this year on the return journey — the usual end-of-term excitement muted by what happened in the maze.
Also known as: Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, Platform 9 3/4, King's Cross