The Flying-Ford Anglia

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The **Flying Ford Anglia** was a light blue Template:W that was enchanted by Arthur Weasley to fly, as well as to become invisible, with the use of a specially installed device called an Invisibility Booster. It was also modified so that it could fit ten people, six trunks, two owls, and a rat comfortably.Template:Vehicle

## Usage

### Flight to The Burrow (1992)

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The Flying Ford Anglia was used on 3 August 1992 by ***Fred***, ***George***, and Ron Weasley to rescue Harry Potter, who was locked up in his room at the ***Dursleys'*** and had been unable to receive any ***mail*** from the Wizarding community as a result of Dobby's attempts to protect him. When they arrived at ***4 Privet Drive***, the Weasley boys pulled the car up to Harry's window, alerting him to their presence, after which they proceeded to pull off the bars on Harry's window and help him retrieve his things. As they were returning to the Burrow, Harry was worried that his friends would get in trouble for using the car due to the Reasonable Restriction for Underage Magic, but as they did not place the spell upon the car and were only borrowing it, it didn't count.
Upon their return to the Burrow, Mrs Weasley was furious with her sons for taking the car but placed no blame on Harry. The next morning, at breakfast, Mrs Weasley told Mr Weasley what the boys had done, and, startled, he began to ask how it went before hastily switching to a reprimand at a look from his wife. He tried to excuse the car by referring to a loophole in the law regarding ownership of charmed objects, but Molly noted that he wrote that law intentionally making sure that there was a loophole which legally allows him to charm Muggle objects.

On ***1 September*** 1992, the Weasley family and their things piled into the magically expanded interior for the ride to King's Cross Station to catch the Hogwarts Express.

### Flight to Hogwarts

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At the start of their second year, Harry and Ron used the enchanted car to get to Hogwarts when the entrance to Platform 9¾ was sealed by Dobby, in another attempt to protect Harry by preventing his return to school. Ron was worried that his parents might not be able to get back through, so they used the car to fly to Hogwarts. Just as they arrived on school grounds, the car began to break down and they ended up crashing into the Whomping Willow. The car, after having unloaded everything and everyone in it, drove off into the Forbidden Forest. Professor Snape informed them that their journey was "seen by no less than seven ***Muggle***s" and that if it had been up to him he would have had them on the train back to London the very same night. Minerva McGonagall was however in charge of their discipline as she was Head of Gryffindor House, and gave them both detention.
Arthur Weasley faced an inquiry at work following this incident. By Christmas, the *Daily Prophet* reported that he was fined fifty Galleons for bewitching the Muggle car.
Near the end of the school year, on 24 May 1993, the car turned up and saved Harry, Ron, and Hagrid's dog, Fang, from Aragog's ***family***. After depositing them outside the forest, it reversed back into it and disappeared from view.

## Possible destruction

At some point between 1993 and 1998, the car may have been taken into the Room of Requirement by a member of the Hogwarts staff as a similar car appeared upside-down during the students' escape from Fiendfyre. It was presumably destroyed along with the other artefacts in the room.

## Behind the scenes

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* J. K. Rowling said in 1999 that it was supposed to reappear in a future book.
* In a deleted scene from Template:COS, Ron says that the Forbidden Forest has turned the car wild. He made a similar statement in the book.
* In 2005, three years after Template:COS was released, the vehicle used in the original footages was stolen from Template:W in Cornwall, presumably by a fanatic fan. In 2006, the car was found near a castle in England.
* The car's registration plate differs in media:
	+ In Template:COS, it is "7990 TD".
		- It may be a reference to the book Template:COS, as the car rescues Harry and Ron on page 207 in the UK edition.
	+ On the cover of Template:COS, it is "HOW 782D".
* A car of same colour and model appeared in the background of the motorcycle chase scene in 2008's *Template:W*. This makes it an anachronism, as the movie is set in 1957 and the Anglia 105E was released two years later.
* WWHP sells a battery operated toy version of the car.
* Despite being referred to as a "1959" model, the Anglia 105E was not launched until October of that year and would be considered a 1960 model under most standards, except the UK where it would be known as a 1959 Model. Details on the Weasleys' car peg it as 1963 or earlier.
* The car was Rupert Grint's favourite prop from the series.
* When the WWHP opened in 2010, most of the invited actors arrived in the Knight Bus, but Rupert Grint and Daniel Radcliffe arrived in the flying Ford Anglia.
* The Template:W collaborative fiction project features SCP-3470 ("Harry Potter's Revenge"), a predatory organism which resembles this car, except that it cannot fly and has a permanently attached "driver". The driver's left hand has two human eyes in its palm, which SCP-3470 always shows to its victims before attacking.
* Rowling provided a deleted draft to the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition for Harry and Ron's original crashing of the Ford Anglia in Template:COS. They were originally going to crash into the Great Lake instead of the Whomping Willow and encounter Merpeople for the first time.

## Appearances

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## Notes and references

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7. ↑ Barnes & Noble chat transcript, Barnes&Noble.com, September 8, 1999
8. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1518803/Harry-Potters-stolen-flying-car-comes-in-to-land.html
9. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/4384244.stm
10. ↑ "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2" Press Conference on YouTube
11. ↑ Template:WW