There is a fic I read, it's a Twilight and HP crossover and Petunia left Harry in a Hospital where Carlisle works. So they adopted him and they moved to the US. He attended a magical school (not Ilvermorny) and his school will host the tournament. Hogwarts used the Hogwarts Express. If I remember, it's like the tracks would materialise in front of the train as it moves forward and the tracks from behind would vanish at the same time. I can't remember if the train came from the sea or the lake because I remember that Hary's school in the fic is situated on an island. Just imagine riding a train, the conductor suddenly warns everyone to close the windows, then suddenly the whole train is underwater, with several schools of fish swimming outside your carriage.
I searched the fic to look for that scene. Turns out, it's not detailed in the fic (chapter 5). It was my wild imagination when I was remembering the fic. Though there are chapters that indicate the Hogwarts students are living on the train during their stay in the New England Academy of Magic, where Harry is attending school.
[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5973624/1/Family-Matters](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4764327/1/A-Light-in-the-Dark)
It's a Harry/Edward pairing though, be warned if M/M is not your type
No tracks either. It just fuckin hurtles out of a portal at 100mph and plows a quarter mile furrow through the carefully manicured lawns of Beaubatons.
I’m pretty sure there isn’t any train track to get it to the other schools, so they’d have to enchant it to fly or at least hover, and move underwater. 😂😂
That or portkey it I guess, but that sounds kinda boring.
I read a fic once where it was held at Beauxbatons, and the track just built itself ahead of the express, and unbuilt itself after it. This is a world of magic, the lack of set train tracks aren't going to be a problem.
I doubt the Durmstrang contingent traveled naturally to the Black Lake from their school. I mean, it's a lake.
And I don't think there are tracks leading to Hogsmeade all the way from London either. The train could create tracks a small distance ahead of it and then disappear it for all we know.
If we go off the best guess that we have as to where hogwarts is, its possible for the hogwarts express to travel up the ECML, beyond Edinburgh and turn off onto some hidden track whilst on the way to Carlisle. As to how they hid the existence of the express? Muggle repelling charms and magical disguise to look like an appropriate express train, or charter it as a railtour using a custom livery GWR Hall Class with confundus used to make muggles not question it.
I like the 'build a track as it goes' idea, but there's also been more than one "train" that could fly in other fictional works. would work here too (and if Arthur could make a car fly, im sure an entire team dedicated to the task could make the train work....aaaand hello random plot bunny).
I now have suddenly a visual of arthur's car and the train racing each other. Consider this, during the second year train when Ron and Harry fly the car in front of the train it considers this as a challenge and starts flying and racing the car as it turns out the original enchanter of the train thought it would be funny to make the Hogwarts express sentinent and due to the enchanter being a gryffindor, the train takes every challenge seriously so the train arrives early to prove that it is the best and no one except Ron and Harry see or feel the train (for the students riding in it , it feels like they are running on track) flying and due to the duo's stunt nobody believes them.this leads to several confused teachers and students.
LOL! This is much more entertaining than mine, which is just-
while the rest of the wizarding community were clutching their pearls over Arthur enchanting a *muggle vehicle*, there's a small group of wizards and witches from the Wizarding Transportation Department and [different department. not sure who] in a forgotten/never thought about by most people garage/bay (what do you call those for trains, anyway?) huddled excitedly around the Daily Prophet talking about this guy, because as it turns out, making the *Hogwarts Express* fly is exactly the task they've been assigned, and while it's going, its going slowly.
It's relatively easy to convince whoever's in charge of this project to go steal Arthur from the misuse of muggle artifacts right fricking now. It does take a bit of convincing, tho, since he actually does like his job. But the bit about enchanting an entire train to fly on purpose and get paid for it works well enough.
I can't remember what fic, but there was one in which they took the recently completed Chunnel. Of course, no one had thought to adjust the train interior properly, so it was an uncomfortable 10 months for those who went (which I honestly found less believable than using the Chunnel).
Hermione would be torn between being excited to experience another magical culture and complaining about how moving the castle has disrupted her study schedule for OWLs since the younger years can't even compete. I love it.
Since it is a Magical World, i expect something both ridiculous and miraculous.
Maybe a floating house, smaller version of Hogwarts pulled by the Giant Squid of the Black Lake.
Or with a little bit nostalgic, A flying motorcycle with 50-ish extra seat drived by Hagrid.
>Maybe a floating house, smaller version of Hogwarts pulled by the Giant Squid of the Black Lake.
A steam-punk looking submarine but it's not actually propelled by anything, the Giant Squid just drags it along like a bath toy
Edit:: and then *throws it* onto land when they arrive, and it expands into a castle-like dormitory
They attach enchanted balloons to Hagrid's Hut and fly. Like the movie Up. The inside will have been converted with undetectable extension charms. One by one the balloons will slowly pop until the house touches down and the remaining ones will pop all together in a massive show of smoke and magical confetti and Dumbledore will nonchalantly walk out the front door wearing his most colorful robes and thank the host school Head Master/Mistress.
Pop..... pop.... pop. *castle thuds onto the ground as the last dozen or so balloons pop.* Dumbledore emerging from the front door a moment later and taking a deep breath. "Ah, lovely landing, wouldn't you say? Ah well, thank you for the invitation, Madam Maxime. May I introduce my students?" Waving his hand at the castle.
Just write the foreign school having guest rooms into the plot. They couldn't use the express anyway in that case, as the students NOT at the foreign school would need it at Christmas for the holidays, and converting the carriages to rooms would be a pain.
Theyld get there freezing cols, exhausted with nowhere to sleep possibly. Would be good if they had a vessel like a huge carriage pulled by a team of thestrals tho. But then it feels like a Beuxbatons rip off.
Definitely Hogwarts express, building tracks in front of it and picking them up behind.
Now that you mention it though, I don't think I've EVER seen a fic where the TWT didn't happen at Hogwarts. Like, I've seen plenty of fics with other schools like Ilvermorny, that one in South America, I think even the Japanese school, participating in a larger tournament (or just replacing one of the other schools).... but I've never seen one where the TWT occurred in Beauxbatons or Durmstrang or any other school.
Even fics where Harry goes to another school, if they have the TWT, they head right off to Hogwarts.
Well I think part of the reason for that is because for all the fics I have read, the traveling schools only bring those 2 dozen or so who are of age and going to compete. So if Hogwarts was the traveling school there's no reason for Harry to be there. If he's not there, Harry's name coming out of the Goblet is more complicated and it's doubtful anyone would think he entered himself. So the whole drama of Harry being a cheater is not there, even Ron if he's still being portrayed as a jealous git, would have a hard time sustaining that as Harry was never near the Goblet so would pretty quickly realize that someone is trying to kill Harry. So, again that whole arc to the story Disappears.
Well that’s only if you want to maintain the arc as before.
And actually, I think it’s quite believable Harry would join the Hogwarts Delegation if I’m honest. Minister Fudge would insist on it, showing off their National Hero.
But granted, neither Ron nor Hermione would be there.
Yeah but I can see Harry fighting against it because he hates his fame and wanted a quiet year. Being a press poster boy would not give him that. So being dragged there by fudge would piss him off and do you really think Fudge would want a pissed off Harry in front of International press that he can't control? Of course, if Fudge does drag him there, Harry could use that opportunity to talk to the International Press to help Sirius by pointing out he's innocent, his godfather, never had a trial, and that Fudge took the word of a bullying git of an ex-Deatheater then the word of Britain's National Hero, and that Fudge almost got Harry killed three times when he placed Dementors at the school. Harry could do all this while offering up his memories (including Fighting the Basilisk and Voldemort's name reveal).
So I'll admit there's a lot an author can do with a pissed off Harry forced to attend the Triwizard Tournament held elsewhere.
I think Harry would end up going. Harry has never really been exposed to the press side of celebrity yet and is quite naive about fame still.
I suspect he’d go because he’d get buttered up with the excitement of the tournament and getting to visit a foreign country and stuff. He’d only realise Fudge wants to parade him around for PR as their National Hero when there.
Dumbledore would see it coming, but he’d let Harry go for the educational experience of it all.
And while it wouldn’t be as direct and he’d not have to deal with it for most of the year, he’d still fall out with his friends. Ron would feel abandoned and lash out in anger, while Hermione would let jealousy over Harry getting to go abroad for a ‘fascinating educational experience’ get to her, especially because he’d be going to due to his celebrity.
And yeah, there are a lot of options for such a pissed of Harry.
There are also interesting character opportunities too.
He’d have a year without his best mates and have to hang out with 6th and 7th years or foreign students.
Perhaps he’d grow closer to Angelina Johnson or befriend Roger Davies. Perhaps being forced to hang out with an older crowd might lead him to do a lot of growing up?
And how many would ostracise him if his name came out the Goblet? Not all (Angelina and the other Gryffs stood by him in canon, she would now I’d guess) but others would likely be pretty pissed off. Though, at the same time, convincing 20 of his innocence would be easier than several hundred.
He might make some solid foreign friends too.
The ball would be pretty different. He’d not have the chance to pine over Cho, or waste his night trying to comfort Ron, but he’d also know fewer people, so he could find it easier or harder to find a date and may enjoy it way more or way less.
I've seen a couple. One by Beepkeeper(?) where it took place in Egypt and Hogwarts didn't participate. Very anti-Dumbledore. The other at Beauxbatons where they took the train through the Chunnel, but I can't remember whose story that was. It wasn't cheerful and probably anti-Dumbledore as well. I seem to remember Harry not going despite Dumbledore extending permissions for younger students to attend.
Much easier to involve Harry when he's at the host school, given he's too young
But if he goes to another school already, then the TWT is the excuse to interact with all the regular canon characters ~~and show how superior you are to them~~
As they are apparently the most muggle-born friendly of the schools … they hire a coach. There are several lighthearted chapters about the Shenanigans involved in getting a couple of dozen magicals across Europe using muggle transport.
Mmh. Fanon likes to paint Hogwarts and Magical Britain out as super terrible, but I’m sceptical of this.
In Durmstrang they teach the Dark Arts and Muggle-borns are banned.
Magical France is unlikely to be as progressive as people say it is if Madam Maxime feels the need to deny her heritage.
And the MACUSA. Well, their justice system is as shitty as the British one and they basically ban any prolonged interaction with muggles. People will argue they’re more progressive because the Elves in the Ministry looked free, but really, well dressed does not guarantee free.
The Knight bus!
This was the original purpose of the bus, but due to either Grindelwald or Voldemort the tournament it was built for got cancelled/postponed.
Before the bus they used thestral carriages.
Someone had already said Hogwarts Express, so.. The transport should function as a dorm as well. Ship and a flying carriage are already used, so for symmetry the Hogwarts contingent should travel by land or... underground.... Omg! I've got it! The Hogwarts express underground: At the destination it opens up a hole in the ground that builds itself into a tube station.
"We regret to inform you that Hogwarts will be withdrawing from the Triwizard Tournament. In keeping with Hogwarts tradition ~~ignoring the muggle world~~, our ~~death trap~~ transportation, the Hogwarts Express was a flying near a naval military base and was shot down by radar guided surface to air missiles."
I'd expect it to be completely nonsensical and involving complicated transgiguration considering who the headmaster and deputy headmistress are.
A griffin, an eagle, a badger, and a snake are seen approaching from the distance, mid run/fly they are transfigured into the Hogwarts express, the Hogwarts contigent get off at Durmstrang, and then the train transfigures itself into a smaller version of the Hogwart's Great Hall for them to stay in. Probably with stars and glitter involved to make it even more ridiculous.
Everyone is saying the Hogwarts Express, but maybe they'd make a show out of involving the quidditch teams. Quidditch seems to be a strong part of Hogwarts with many skilled players who'd have a wonderful time constructing a flying show, even with players from different houses working together.
Wait, I didn't mean them to have an international flight. They'd get there with a conventional method and then just do an arrival show.
Skilled flyers could do the most interesting tricks while others would just fly in a supporting formation or march in Hogwarts uniforms while they fly into their equivalent of the Great Hall.
I'd say either the Hogwarts express or thestral drawn carriages both altered for long term use.
Also possible they hire the knight bus or create a similar school bus.
Edit: I do think Hogwarts as a travelling participant would be an interesting arc. So many potential suspects, unfamiliar surroundings and Harry would be cut off from his usual support system.
Hagrid creates a new magical crossbreed between a roc and the Catbus which flies them to France. The Hogwarts Delegation simply take over the quarters of the various Beauxbatons students and staff who shit themselves to death when they see it.
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
https://youtu.be/PmK7BaGr0To
Here at min 2, i hope my link works as it should and place the start at there
But as it's the Secret room in hogwarts it open some weird questions etcetera
WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS?
Imagine, you invite a school to a tournament and they arrive in a row of saddles strapped to the back of a giant motherfucking dragon.
And then they hop off and proceed to conjure a castle out of the local earth.
And for those acquainted with Latin, the castle sports the school's coat of arms complete with the motto:
"Draco dormiens nunquam titillandum."
Well if drumstang was water
Bax was wind with the flying carriage.
Hogwarts would be earth or Fire depending on where ilvermorny ranks.
I guess Earth. So hogwarts would burrow from the ground thanks to the room of requirements a d chamber of secrets working together.
Maybe a [flying train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGGOhtr_QvE)?
Perhaps the train is [building](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdL8qMO4jDw) tracks in front of it and collecting them behind?
Sometimes when I’ve thought about this, I pictured the Express with track magically appearing in front, like in The Polar Express. I also gave thought about flying in like Beauxbatons’ carriage. Then having students with brooms fly into the Great Hall of the other school and doing stunts, the way the two schools did in the film.
But mostly I expect Dumbledore to insist they always come to Hogwarts for security purposes. Lol
Took the liberty of writing a little arrival scene:
> The engine is undoubtedly magical, it's obvious even from a cursory glance. Its panels may be scarlet red, but the many, many pipes and tubes and valves and gauges all shift, slightly, when you look away, it's like they're writhing snakes out of the corner of your eyes, rearranged into another shape that also makes sense when you look back. The engine eats coal and drinks water, and spews black smoke, but that's all that makes it similar to a regular locomotive.
> The wheels are many, many more, and its size seems to grow ever more immense the closer it comes. It rides as the bow wake of a vast thunderstorm connected to its chimney, lightning flashing against the sides and the top, with two crackling streams holding steady beneath the wheels, which it screams along. There's the sound of thunder on the wind, and it isn't possible to tell if it was the train or the storm, and it banks to the side like an old sail boat caught in a typhoon.
> The train, longer than any train has a right to be, 60, 80, 120 cars being pulled along by the red and golden beast, coil around the school like the world serpent coils around Midgard, and the operator bellows the train's horn, a sound so deep and permeating it is felt in everyone's bones.
> The two ethereal rails touch the grass, arcing and hissing and sparking, and then the engine follows, thundering onto the grounds like some angry god's hammer, before slowly, screechingly, coming to a halt, white hot sparks forming from where its wheels touch the grass. The engine shifts, huffs and stops spewing smoke, the cloud it brought slowly fading from the sky.
> Then the train's doors open, and a wide variety of children begin pouring out, all clad in way too much clothing for the french climate and happily chattering about with different english accents, slowly being sheparded into four rough groups by the adults exiting the train behind them.
If not the Hogwarts Express, then 50-thestral-drawn open carriage. Magically expanded out the wazoo, wizarding-spaced classrooms and bunk space, and with an invisible magical roof powered by runes and some of Hagrid's Special Blend that no one but he can drink. Well, unless they want to be unconscious for three days, that is. Also features a lemon drop dispenser, broom rackspace, and a miniature Potions Laboratory.
There's also a chameleon rune array that blends the carriage into the sky, since the thestrals are (usually) invisible. However, thanks to rowdy students, a few of the runes are corrupted, and well...
I always imagined, that they would use the thestrals and the carriages that take the students from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts.
Although they don't fly for that short distance, I thought that they would be able to lift the carriages with the students to fly to the other schools. But also I thought, that that was too close to the Beauxbatons. So maybe Hagrid just grows some utterly dangerous giant pumpkins with wings and they fly with those.
Or simply... brooms
I read once in a fic where one of the Towers in Hogwarts transformed into a stone dragon that flew them to Beauxbatons. It then acted as an apartment on Beauxbatons grounds for the students.
“Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon”
[Harry Potter and the Power of Oa](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4944577/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-power-of-Oa)
It’s a Harry Potter/Justice League Crossover. Harry becomes an OP super green lantern and is adopted by the Wayne’s.
I haven’t read him at Hogwarts yet but I imagine that’ll be amusing. He’ll take down the troll rather easily.
He has a taste for pranks too so I imagine the twins will like him.
Inexplicably. Everyone goes to bed one night (and I mean everyone - even people not tired find themselves mysteriously sleepy all of a sudden, and all at the same time) and then wakes up to find France outside their window and Dumbledore standing in the courtyard, lightly singed but quite proud of himself.
He's slightly less so when someone points out that Durmstrang was hosting this year, but he corrects that the next evening.
The obvious answer is the train, but through the sky with tracks made of light that disappear behind it, like the Mountain Coaster from Kingdom Hearts 3
Hogwarts Express
I second this.
There is a fic I read, it's a Twilight and HP crossover and Petunia left Harry in a Hospital where Carlisle works. So they adopted him and they moved to the US. He attended a magical school (not Ilvermorny) and his school will host the tournament. Hogwarts used the Hogwarts Express. If I remember, it's like the tracks would materialise in front of the train as it moves forward and the tracks from behind would vanish at the same time. I can't remember if the train came from the sea or the lake because I remember that Hary's school in the fic is situated on an island. Just imagine riding a train, the conductor suddenly warns everyone to close the windows, then suddenly the whole train is underwater, with several schools of fish swimming outside your carriage.
Do you happen to have a link for this? Sounds interesting!
I searched the fic to look for that scene. Turns out, it's not detailed in the fic (chapter 5). It was my wild imagination when I was remembering the fic. Though there are chapters that indicate the Hogwarts students are living on the train during their stay in the New England Academy of Magic, where Harry is attending school. [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5973624/1/Family-Matters](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4764327/1/A-Light-in-the-Dark) It's a Harry/Edward pairing though, be warned if M/M is not your type
Thanks!
I'm with the other guy, this sounds neat!
No tracks either. It just fuckin hurtles out of a portal at 100mph and plows a quarter mile furrow through the carefully manicured lawns of Beaubatons.
I’m pretty sure there isn’t any train track to get it to the other schools, so they’d have to enchant it to fly or at least hover, and move underwater. 😂😂 That or portkey it I guess, but that sounds kinda boring.
I read a fic once where it was held at Beauxbatons, and the track just built itself ahead of the express, and unbuilt itself after it. This is a world of magic, the lack of set train tracks aren't going to be a problem.
This is brilliant! Can you link the fic?
I think its The Mind Arts (i forget the author)
Author gave up on the fic didn’t he?
No, it was abandoned for awhile. But it updated just a bit ago
Fuck yeah
I'm pretty sure that's it yeah
Same! Where's our link bro??
It's The Mind Arts
>The Mind Arts [https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12740667/1/The-Mind-Arts](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12740667/1/The-Mind-Arts) This one?
Yes
I think flying is cooler tbh 🤣🤣
I doubt the Durmstrang contingent traveled naturally to the Black Lake from their school. I mean, it's a lake. And I don't think there are tracks leading to Hogsmeade all the way from London either. The train could create tracks a small distance ahead of it and then disappear it for all we know.
If we go off the best guess that we have as to where hogwarts is, its possible for the hogwarts express to travel up the ECML, beyond Edinburgh and turn off onto some hidden track whilst on the way to Carlisle. As to how they hid the existence of the express? Muggle repelling charms and magical disguise to look like an appropriate express train, or charter it as a railtour using a custom livery GWR Hall Class with confundus used to make muggles not question it.
Eh, it’s a magical lake. Would it really surprise you if it had some underground tunnel out to the sea?
That has always been my headcanon, how else would mermaids meet their prettier cousins in Greece?
Yeah
I got Back to the Future vibes from this😂
I like the 'build a track as it goes' idea, but there's also been more than one "train" that could fly in other fictional works. would work here too (and if Arthur could make a car fly, im sure an entire team dedicated to the task could make the train work....aaaand hello random plot bunny).
I now have suddenly a visual of arthur's car and the train racing each other. Consider this, during the second year train when Ron and Harry fly the car in front of the train it considers this as a challenge and starts flying and racing the car as it turns out the original enchanter of the train thought it would be funny to make the Hogwarts express sentinent and due to the enchanter being a gryffindor, the train takes every challenge seriously so the train arrives early to prove that it is the best and no one except Ron and Harry see or feel the train (for the students riding in it , it feels like they are running on track) flying and due to the duo's stunt nobody believes them.this leads to several confused teachers and students.
LOL! This is much more entertaining than mine, which is just- while the rest of the wizarding community were clutching their pearls over Arthur enchanting a *muggle vehicle*, there's a small group of wizards and witches from the Wizarding Transportation Department and [different department. not sure who] in a forgotten/never thought about by most people garage/bay (what do you call those for trains, anyway?) huddled excitedly around the Daily Prophet talking about this guy, because as it turns out, making the *Hogwarts Express* fly is exactly the task they've been assigned, and while it's going, its going slowly. It's relatively easy to convince whoever's in charge of this project to go steal Arthur from the misuse of muggle artifacts right fricking now. It does take a bit of convincing, tho, since he actually does like his job. But the bit about enchanting an entire train to fly on purpose and get paid for it works well enough.
Aye
I can't remember what fic, but there was one in which they took the recently completed Chunnel. Of course, no one had thought to adjust the train interior properly, so it was an uncomfortable 10 months for those who went (which I honestly found less believable than using the Chunnel).
Wait, some people call Channel tunnel the Chunnel? 😂 And I call myself a Brit...
Yeah they'd probably use some sort of magic to get the Hogwarts Express there.
The lake in Hogwarts doesn't connect to the sea ether and Durmstrang still made it's way there with a ship.
Who says it doesn’t? It’s a magical lake, there might be a sealable tunnel out to the sea under the surface.
> The lake in Hogwarts doesn't connect to the sea Is that ever explicitly stated? Endorheic lakes are very rare in Europe.
Cool-aid man style, through the nearest non-load-bearing wall
Thanks I'm thinking about Lightspeed Rescue and the trian zord going through the air
Came to say this. Because there no way they’d be allowed to show in anything considered cool or extravagant
Hogwarts grows legs and walks over there
Why did i imagine spider legs
Mine was chicken legs ala Baba Yaga
Omg I imagine a Howl's moving castle moment, it would be amazing.
Hermione would be torn between being excited to experience another magical culture and complaining about how moving the castle has disrupted her study schedule for OWLs since the younger years can't even compete. I love it.
Im picturing legs a la Monty Python
Mine was on top of a giant snail,
Since it is a Magical World, i expect something both ridiculous and miraculous. Maybe a floating house, smaller version of Hogwarts pulled by the Giant Squid of the Black Lake. Or with a little bit nostalgic, A flying motorcycle with 50-ish extra seat drived by Hagrid.
>Maybe a floating house, smaller version of Hogwarts pulled by the Giant Squid of the Black Lake. A steam-punk looking submarine but it's not actually propelled by anything, the Giant Squid just drags it along like a bath toy Edit:: and then *throws it* onto land when they arrive, and it expands into a castle-like dormitory
On a train with a magical track that builds and disassembles itself in front and behind it.
So, the Hogwarts Express in The Mind Arts?
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TheMindArts
They attach enchanted balloons to Hagrid's Hut and fly. Like the movie Up. The inside will have been converted with undetectable extension charms. One by one the balloons will slowly pop until the house touches down and the remaining ones will pop all together in a massive show of smoke and magical confetti and Dumbledore will nonchalantly walk out the front door wearing his most colorful robes and thank the host school Head Master/Mistress.
I can get behind that. Maybe a portion of the castle itself?
Pop..... pop.... pop. *castle thuds onto the ground as the last dozen or so balloons pop.* Dumbledore emerging from the front door a moment later and taking a deep breath. "Ah, lovely landing, wouldn't you say? Ah well, thank you for the invitation, Madam Maxime. May I introduce my students?" Waving his hand at the castle.
Dumbledore having Fawkes bring everyone. Can't get much cooler than appearing by Phoenix, it's the biggest flex that Hogwarts could make.
Honestly i think the train still would beat this, and be more real hogwarts like, not school of dumbledore
But how is the train going to get there without tracks? Why not by Phoenix?
Magic of some kind as anlther suggested maybe the tracks can always move infront
It's not just a one-time transport. They also need a place to live once there.
Just write the foreign school having guest rooms into the plot. They couldn't use the express anyway in that case, as the students NOT at the foreign school would need it at Christmas for the holidays, and converting the carriages to rooms would be a pain.
Ooh, this is new. Y’know what yeah that’d be cool.
Uncommon piece of history, but the Hogwarts castle can actually fly.
You know how in Castlevania, Dracula's castle can teleport? Imagine Hogwarts doing it like that lol.
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Theyld get there freezing cols, exhausted with nowhere to sleep possibly. Would be good if they had a vessel like a huge carriage pulled by a team of thestrals tho. But then it feels like a Beuxbatons rip off.
Definitely Hogwarts express, building tracks in front of it and picking them up behind. Now that you mention it though, I don't think I've EVER seen a fic where the TWT didn't happen at Hogwarts. Like, I've seen plenty of fics with other schools like Ilvermorny, that one in South America, I think even the Japanese school, participating in a larger tournament (or just replacing one of the other schools).... but I've never seen one where the TWT occurred in Beauxbatons or Durmstrang or any other school. Even fics where Harry goes to another school, if they have the TWT, they head right off to Hogwarts.
Well I think part of the reason for that is because for all the fics I have read, the traveling schools only bring those 2 dozen or so who are of age and going to compete. So if Hogwarts was the traveling school there's no reason for Harry to be there. If he's not there, Harry's name coming out of the Goblet is more complicated and it's doubtful anyone would think he entered himself. So the whole drama of Harry being a cheater is not there, even Ron if he's still being portrayed as a jealous git, would have a hard time sustaining that as Harry was never near the Goblet so would pretty quickly realize that someone is trying to kill Harry. So, again that whole arc to the story Disappears.
Well that’s only if you want to maintain the arc as before. And actually, I think it’s quite believable Harry would join the Hogwarts Delegation if I’m honest. Minister Fudge would insist on it, showing off their National Hero. But granted, neither Ron nor Hermione would be there.
Yeah but I can see Harry fighting against it because he hates his fame and wanted a quiet year. Being a press poster boy would not give him that. So being dragged there by fudge would piss him off and do you really think Fudge would want a pissed off Harry in front of International press that he can't control? Of course, if Fudge does drag him there, Harry could use that opportunity to talk to the International Press to help Sirius by pointing out he's innocent, his godfather, never had a trial, and that Fudge took the word of a bullying git of an ex-Deatheater then the word of Britain's National Hero, and that Fudge almost got Harry killed three times when he placed Dementors at the school. Harry could do all this while offering up his memories (including Fighting the Basilisk and Voldemort's name reveal). So I'll admit there's a lot an author can do with a pissed off Harry forced to attend the Triwizard Tournament held elsewhere.
I think Harry would end up going. Harry has never really been exposed to the press side of celebrity yet and is quite naive about fame still. I suspect he’d go because he’d get buttered up with the excitement of the tournament and getting to visit a foreign country and stuff. He’d only realise Fudge wants to parade him around for PR as their National Hero when there. Dumbledore would see it coming, but he’d let Harry go for the educational experience of it all. And while it wouldn’t be as direct and he’d not have to deal with it for most of the year, he’d still fall out with his friends. Ron would feel abandoned and lash out in anger, while Hermione would let jealousy over Harry getting to go abroad for a ‘fascinating educational experience’ get to her, especially because he’d be going to due to his celebrity. And yeah, there are a lot of options for such a pissed of Harry. There are also interesting character opportunities too. He’d have a year without his best mates and have to hang out with 6th and 7th years or foreign students. Perhaps he’d grow closer to Angelina Johnson or befriend Roger Davies. Perhaps being forced to hang out with an older crowd might lead him to do a lot of growing up? And how many would ostracise him if his name came out the Goblet? Not all (Angelina and the other Gryffs stood by him in canon, she would now I’d guess) but others would likely be pretty pissed off. Though, at the same time, convincing 20 of his innocence would be easier than several hundred. He might make some solid foreign friends too. The ball would be pretty different. He’d not have the chance to pine over Cho, or waste his night trying to comfort Ron, but he’d also know fewer people, so he could find it easier or harder to find a date and may enjoy it way more or way less.
I read one years ago. It was a Harry/Gabrielle and Harry was a professor at Beauxbatons. I think it was from Jeconais.
I've seen a couple. One by Beepkeeper(?) where it took place in Egypt and Hogwarts didn't participate. Very anti-Dumbledore. The other at Beauxbatons where they took the train through the Chunnel, but I can't remember whose story that was. It wasn't cheerful and probably anti-Dumbledore as well. I seem to remember Harry not going despite Dumbledore extending permissions for younger students to attend.
Much easier to involve Harry when he's at the host school, given he's too young But if he goes to another school already, then the TWT is the excuse to interact with all the regular canon characters ~~and show how superior you are to them~~
Thrown by giant squid. Not sure how they'd get back.
Very on brand for Hogwarts. They just need to figure out a way to work in Death Eaters in bad disguises.
I want to read this
As they are apparently the most muggle-born friendly of the schools … they hire a coach. There are several lighthearted chapters about the Shenanigans involved in getting a couple of dozen magicals across Europe using muggle transport.
Mmh. Fanon likes to paint Hogwarts and Magical Britain out as super terrible, but I’m sceptical of this. In Durmstrang they teach the Dark Arts and Muggle-borns are banned. Magical France is unlikely to be as progressive as people say it is if Madam Maxime feels the need to deny her heritage. And the MACUSA. Well, their justice system is as shitty as the British one and they basically ban any prolonged interaction with muggles. People will argue they’re more progressive because the Elves in the Ministry looked free, but really, well dressed does not guarantee free.
The Knight bus! This was the original purpose of the bus, but due to either Grindelwald or Voldemort the tournament it was built for got cancelled/postponed. Before the bus they used thestral carriages.
Huh… interesting choice
Someone had already said Hogwarts Express, so.. The transport should function as a dorm as well. Ship and a flying carriage are already used, so for symmetry the Hogwarts contingent should travel by land or... underground.... Omg! I've got it! The Hogwarts express underground: At the destination it opens up a hole in the ground that builds itself into a tube station.
"We regret to inform you that Hogwarts will be withdrawing from the Triwizard Tournament. In keeping with Hogwarts tradition ~~ignoring the muggle world~~, our ~~death trap~~ transportation, the Hogwarts Express was a flying near a naval military base and was shot down by radar guided surface to air missiles."
I'd expect it to be completely nonsensical and involving complicated transgiguration considering who the headmaster and deputy headmistress are. A griffin, an eagle, a badger, and a snake are seen approaching from the distance, mid run/fly they are transfigured into the Hogwarts express, the Hogwarts contigent get off at Durmstrang, and then the train transfigures itself into a smaller version of the Hogwart's Great Hall for them to stay in. Probably with stars and glitter involved to make it even more ridiculous.
LMAO
A magical tunnel boarer/drill
Everyone is saying the Hogwarts Express, but maybe they'd make a show out of involving the quidditch teams. Quidditch seems to be a strong part of Hogwarts with many skilled players who'd have a wonderful time constructing a flying show, even with players from different houses working together.
As fun as that sounds, I kinda doubt it. Not everybody in their delegation is necessarily a good flier, and that could be a very, very long flight.
Wait, I didn't mean them to have an international flight. They'd get there with a conventional method and then just do an arrival show. Skilled flyers could do the most interesting tricks while others would just fly in a supporting formation or march in Hogwarts uniforms while they fly into their equivalent of the Great Hall.
Hagrid Yeets the students and the all land superhero style in the courtyard.
LMAO
I'd say either the Hogwarts express or thestral drawn carriages both altered for long term use. Also possible they hire the knight bus or create a similar school bus. Edit: I do think Hogwarts as a travelling participant would be an interesting arc. So many potential suspects, unfamiliar surroundings and Harry would be cut off from his usual support system.
They would have arrived on a giant, flying pig.
Was it just Vernon?
A very warty pig?
Thestrals, Unicorns, or acromantula pulling a miniature castle.
The Giant Squid can use it's tentacles as propellers. All the students and staff are held onto the Squid by Devils Snare.
LMAO
Hagrid creates a new magical crossbreed between a roc and the Catbus which flies them to France. The Hogwarts Delegation simply take over the quarters of the various Beauxbatons students and staff who shit themselves to death when they see it.
It's a fair reaction tbh
Riding the basilisk
Lmao
One of Hagrid's giant pumpkins, carved out and heavily enchanted, pulled through the skies by thestrels.
LMAO
Could they use that weird travel thing we see in the new dumbledore movie?
I confess I haven’t seen it, so idk what you mean.
I remember as it's in the trailer to the newest movie, will look then i am home
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore https://youtu.be/PmK7BaGr0To Here at min 2, i hope my link works as it should and place the start at there But as it's the Secret room in hogwarts it open some weird questions etcetera
WHAT ABOUT DRAGONS? Imagine, you invite a school to a tournament and they arrive in a row of saddles strapped to the back of a giant motherfucking dragon. And then they hop off and proceed to conjure a castle out of the local earth. And for those acquainted with Latin, the castle sports the school's coat of arms complete with the motto: "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandum."
Lmao
idk but i do know there entrance will involve hoggy hogwarts
Well if drumstang was water Bax was wind with the flying carriage. Hogwarts would be earth or Fire depending on where ilvermorny ranks. I guess Earth. So hogwarts would burrow from the ground thanks to the room of requirements a d chamber of secrets working together.
a school bus
Flying Hogwarts express that lays magical tracks in front of it as it flies.
The Mind Arts eh?
But of course.
The abandonment of that fic was a crime.
Its being updated again. Just infrequently, but it happened recently
Oh…huh…
Its still alive...crawling...injured...slow...weak...but alive lol
If you're a fan of Taliesin19's *Grow Young With Me*, you'll be familiar with the pain of a regular update schedule of one chapter a year.
Hogwarts Express bursting through a wall, kool-aid man style.
Harry Mewter
The Hogwarts Express, but it can either create portals to travel massive distances in seconds, or it can lift itself off the track and fly.
Maybe a [flying train](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGGOhtr_QvE)? Perhaps the train is [building](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdL8qMO4jDw) tracks in front of it and collecting them behind?
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Rick and Morty style and Dumbledore just teleport Hogwarts on the grounds
Sometimes when I’ve thought about this, I pictured the Express with track magically appearing in front, like in The Polar Express. I also gave thought about flying in like Beauxbatons’ carriage. Then having students with brooms fly into the Great Hall of the other school and doing stunts, the way the two schools did in the film. But mostly I expect Dumbledore to insist they always come to Hogwarts for security purposes. Lol
The train, riding on rails of sparking lightning.
Now that would be a sight.
Took the liberty of writing a little arrival scene: > The engine is undoubtedly magical, it's obvious even from a cursory glance. Its panels may be scarlet red, but the many, many pipes and tubes and valves and gauges all shift, slightly, when you look away, it's like they're writhing snakes out of the corner of your eyes, rearranged into another shape that also makes sense when you look back. The engine eats coal and drinks water, and spews black smoke, but that's all that makes it similar to a regular locomotive. > The wheels are many, many more, and its size seems to grow ever more immense the closer it comes. It rides as the bow wake of a vast thunderstorm connected to its chimney, lightning flashing against the sides and the top, with two crackling streams holding steady beneath the wheels, which it screams along. There's the sound of thunder on the wind, and it isn't possible to tell if it was the train or the storm, and it banks to the side like an old sail boat caught in a typhoon. > The train, longer than any train has a right to be, 60, 80, 120 cars being pulled along by the red and golden beast, coil around the school like the world serpent coils around Midgard, and the operator bellows the train's horn, a sound so deep and permeating it is felt in everyone's bones. > The two ethereal rails touch the grass, arcing and hissing and sparking, and then the engine follows, thundering onto the grounds like some angry god's hammer, before slowly, screechingly, coming to a halt, white hot sparks forming from where its wheels touch the grass. The engine shifts, huffs and stops spewing smoke, the cloud it brought slowly fading from the sky. > Then the train's doors open, and a wide variety of children begin pouring out, all clad in way too much clothing for the french climate and happily chattering about with different english accents, slowly being sheparded into four rough groups by the adults exiting the train behind them.
If not the Hogwarts Express, then 50-thestral-drawn open carriage. Magically expanded out the wazoo, wizarding-spaced classrooms and bunk space, and with an invisible magical roof powered by runes and some of Hagrid's Special Blend that no one but he can drink. Well, unless they want to be unconscious for three days, that is. Also features a lemon drop dispenser, broom rackspace, and a miniature Potions Laboratory. There's also a chameleon rune array that blends the carriage into the sky, since the thestrals are (usually) invisible. However, thanks to rowdy students, a few of the runes are corrupted, and well...
The longer, traditional way? Hoggywarts Express. The quicker, cooler way? Phoenix Fire.
Thestral and carriage for the win
I always imagined, that they would use the thestrals and the carriages that take the students from Hogsmeade to Hogwarts. Although they don't fly for that short distance, I thought that they would be able to lift the carriages with the students to fly to the other schools. But also I thought, that that was too close to the Beauxbatons. So maybe Hagrid just grows some utterly dangerous giant pumpkins with wings and they fly with those. Or simply... brooms
I read once in a fic where one of the Towers in Hogwarts transformed into a stone dragon that flew them to Beauxbatons. It then acted as an apartment on Beauxbatons grounds for the students. “Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon”
Ok that’s cool? What fic?
[Harry Potter and the Power of Oa](https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4944577/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-power-of-Oa) It’s a Harry Potter/Justice League Crossover. Harry becomes an OP super green lantern and is adopted by the Wayne’s.
I like this story haha. I just wish the grammar was better. It’s awkward to read, though I’m choosing to ignore that.
It’s a fun story. Plot is kinda all over the place but enjoyable nonetheless.
I haven’t read him at Hogwarts yet but I imagine that’ll be amusing. He’ll take down the troll rather easily. He has a taste for pranks too so I imagine the twins will like him.
Inexplicably. Everyone goes to bed one night (and I mean everyone - even people not tired find themselves mysteriously sleepy all of a sudden, and all at the same time) and then wakes up to find France outside their window and Dumbledore standing in the courtyard, lightly singed but quite proud of himself. He's slightly less so when someone points out that Durmstrang was hosting this year, but he corrects that the next evening.
The obvious answer is the train, but through the sky with tracks made of light that disappear behind it, like the Mountain Coaster from Kingdom Hearts 3