Why do Muggles not see Platform 9 3 4?

Their is the line in book when harry first saw a weasley running towards the barrier, many people crowded around him and blocked him from view. According to Pottermore/J.K. Rowling
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, the muggles sometimes see wizards or witches go trough.
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Can Muggles parents go to Platform 9 3 4?

Lily and Petunia's parents are also mentioned later. So yes, it is possible, but I think you may have to go through with a witch or wizard if you are a Muggle. There must be some restrictions, otherwise muggles would have discovered the Platform by now!
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Why can't Muggles see Diagon Alley?

If a Muggle were to look at Hogwarts, for example, all they would see is a ruin with signs telling them to keep out. Some magical locations are sequestered entirely from the Muggle world – with Diagon Alley, in particular, being accessible through a number of gateways between the two worlds.
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Can Muggles see Diagon Alley?

Diagon Alley, the wizarding high street located in London, is only accessible to wizards, hidden from Muggles. The only Muggles given access are those accompanying their Muggle-born children.
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What prevents Muggle devices from working at Hogwarts?

Electricity and magic

Magic was known to interfere with the functionality of Muggle technologies powered by electricity. Most Muggle electronics – including computers, radar, and bugging devices – did not work in Hogwarts's magical environment.
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How Muggleborns Are Told They Are Magical



What would happen if a Muggle got a wand?

A Muggle gaining one wouldn't just effectively have a stick in their hand but could produce an uncontrollable magical effect. Muggles can't necessarily perform magic, but with a wand, they could cause some to manifest in an uncontrollable manner.
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Why don t wizards use guns in Harry Potter?

The good wizards don't use guns or other technology against the Death Eaters because it is completely ineffective against magical entities like wizards. In the HP world, muggles use technology because they don't have magic, the implication being that if you do have magic then technology becomes redundant.
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Can a Muggle enter Leaky Cauldron?

Muggles can only see the Leaky Cauldron when they are invited to it.
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How do Muggle borns pay for Hogwarts?

In the real-life version of Gringotts Bank at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, muggles can pay real-life money for Gringotts bank notes, which can be used to pay for things around the park, or kept for souveniers.
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How do Muggles not see dragons?

Also Muggles believed that dragons were a mere myth, but had been known on occasion to glimpse these beasts. To prevent dragons from being seen by Muggles, the beasts were kept on dragon reserves around the world, most of which were far from human habitation.
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Why is there no electricity in Hogwarts?

One of the most popular ones is all about electricity, as wizards aren't really users of it, preferring candles and other magic to provide light instead. With no electricity, wizards can't use phones, computers, and more like Muggles do, and the reason for the lack of electricity is because magic interferes with it.
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Can Muggles read the Daily Prophet?

Take this Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Quiz today on The Daily Prophet today and see how much you remember! 90% of all Muggles fail and only some Witches and Wizards can pass.
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Can a Muggle turn into a wizard?

He explained it wasn't possible, so my take would be that no, a Muggle can't just decide to become a witch/wizard. From my understanding, Muggle borns can manifest the abilities or get them genetically from a witch/wizard who married a Muggle in their family tree.
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Why can't Harry and Ron get through the barrier?

History. In September of 1992, the house elf Dobby used this charm to block the barrier to Platform Nine and Three-Quarters, therefore preventing Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley from using it, as part of his plot to try to save Harry from the opening of the Chamber of Secrets.
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Can Muggles see Hogwarts Express?

It's quite possible it's visible, since Hermione's parents dropped her off to the train and there was no mention of them NOT seeing it.
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Why is it called platform 93 4?

From the origin of the platform to the way students got to school before it, how much do you know about the Hogwarts Express in Harry Potter? The fascinating Harry Potter train platform hidden within London's King's Cross station is called 9 and 3/4, because of its secret placement between platforms 9 & 10.
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How do Muggle-borns get their letter?

When Muggle-born witches and wizards reached the age of eleven in the British wizarding community, their Hogwarts acceptance letters were delivered in person by a member of the staff, instead of by owl post (the usual postal system for wizards and witches).
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How many galleons Hermione have?

There's no way her dentist parents are so rich they can afford to give her 10 galleons as spending money, unless the wizard gold/muggle money exchange rate is much better than the exchange rate in our muggle market.
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How do Mudbloods get magic?

Mudbloods: Wizards can be born from non-magical parents because these mutations can pop up out of nowhere. There's a better chance of you being magical if your parents are on the high side of the normal range. Squibs: Would be the offspring that are born to magical parents but don't inherit the dominant wizarding gene.
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Why can't Muggles see Dementors?

10 Even Muggles Can Sense Their Presence

While Muggles cannot see Dementors, their draining power is so strong that non-magical people can still sense them.
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Why is Knockturn Alley bad?

From the shops, one can purchase many types of dark objects, which include poisonous candles, shrunken heads, giant spiders, human-looking fingernails and toenails, and Flesh-Eating Slug Repellent. Because of its contents, Arthur and Molly Weasley prohibited their children from entering Knockturn Alley.
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How can Hermione's parents go to Diagon Alley?

And how did they even get into Diagon Alley? After all, both her parents are muggles so they wouldn't have had wizard currency and they wouldn't have known that Diagon Alley could be accessed via the Leaky Cauldron.
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Why don t wizards use pens?

Quills have a long history of being used as writing utensils. Many wizards like doing things the way that they were "always" done. They don't like to do something new. For example, many joined the death eaters, because they had always been superior to muggles and Muggle-Borns, and they did not want to change that.
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Why didnt Voldemort use a gun?

Voldemort always wanted to be different and superior to others. He cant be superior if he uses knife or gun. “I knew I was different,” he whispered to his own quivering fingers. “I knew I was special.
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Do wizards have tvs?

Most Muggle homes have at least one set, and there is most likely no wizarding world equivalent. Despite this, there was an attempt to create a wizarding television network in the early 1980s, but it was shot down by the British Ministry of Magic.
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