Even with all that, he still reached the Tube station at nine-thirty. Unfortunately, there was some kind of horrible problem on the Victoria Line, and he'd had to backtrack to Leicester Square to catch the Picadilly Line instead, then pull his trunk through what seemed like miles of underground tunnels to reach the train station. Then he'd had to find Platform Nine, which was nowhere near Platform Eight, and when all was said and done, he'd reached Platform Nine and Three-Quarters with only minutes to spare.