WEBVTT
Kind: captions
Language: en

1
00:00:00.260 --> 00:00:05.500
I'm at Platform 9¾, the actual Platform 9¾ in King's Cross Station.

2
00:00:05.700 --> 00:00:09.060
Well, I say actual. Obviously, there isn't an actual one.

3
00:00:09.060 --> 00:00:13.200
It's fictional. And when JK Rowling wrote the book, she was actually thinking about Euston,

4
00:00:13.200 --> 00:00:16.100
which is over there. But here is the thing you
might not know: The people

5
00:00:16.100 --> 00:00:19.170
from the Harry Potter shop -- just around the corner, there is two of them just there -- Wave guys!

6
00:00:21.240 --> 00:00:22.600
Folks from the Harry Potter shop

7
00:00:22.600 --> 00:00:26.150
have put a proper Kings Cross luggage trolley here,

8
00:00:26.150 --> 00:00:29.400
halved, disappearing into the wall.

9
00:00:29.400 --> 00:00:33.340
Lots of people know about this but what you might not know is that the platform is

10
00:00:33.340 --> 00:00:35.130
currently in the wrong place:

11
00:00:35.130 --> 00:00:38.390
Because over there is Platform 8 and
over there is

12
00:00:38.390 --> 00:00:41.899
Platform 9, which means that this should be 8¾.

13
00:00:41.900 --> 00:00:46.700
This isn't just, however, the convenient place to put it. Kings Cross currently has a Platform 0,

14
00:00:46.710 --> 00:00:50.420
which means that eventually after they're done with all the redevelopment

15
00:00:50.420 --> 00:00:54.570
Problem 0 will get renumbered: It will become Platform 1. 1 will become 2,

16
00:00:54.570 --> 00:00:58.219
2 will become 3, 8 will become 9, 9 will become 10.

17
00:00:58.219 --> 00:01:01.480
And Platform 9¾ will
finally be

18
00:01:01.480 --> 00:01:04.610
in the correct place and that is
something you might not know.

19
00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:07.800
[Translating these subtitles? Add your name here!]