Whilst over in the USA all eyes were on the Mercedes Benz superdome, Destiny's Child, and the "magical" Super Bowl, here in Scotland another Mercedes hit the the national headlines - astounding really - after being left on an "island of asphalt" by workers busy refurnishing the Edinburgh Waverly train station car park. (BBC)
Note that Waverley car park sits below the Balmoral Hotel, a place linked to Harry Potter, given Rowling completed the occult series there on 11th January 2007, in room 652, signing a bust of Hermes in the process. The hotel too has another magical connection, the TV programme Shoebox Zoo and the alchemist/wizard Michael Scot. (wiki).
Whilst last Wednesday we saw Prince Charles & Camilla at King's Cross Station in London, visiting the "Harry Potter platform" 9 and three quarters. They were not on route to Scotland and their own Balmoral, rather just on a tour, however Potter's Muggles would indeed use the platform on their trips up North.
One wonders if maybe the allegedly abandoned yet powerful Mercedes, sitting on an island, is thus symbolic.
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