Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Ford Anglia

Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter - Magic
Ford Anglia
Type	Magical device
Features	Flying car
First Appearance	Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Overview

The Ford Anglia is a unique magical artifact. Created by Arthur Weasley, it is able to fly and has the capability of becoming invisible.

Extended Description

Fred, George, and Ron Weasley take this car out of its storage shed in order to bring Harry away from the Dursleys', and bring him to the Burrow. They get into rather a lot of trouble for this when they are caught by their mother.

The entire family is carried to King's Cross Station in this car, when it is time to go to Hogwarts. Arthur has placed a spell on the car so that it is larger inside than outside; Mrs. Weasley remarks on how Muggles are able to build a car that looks so small and has so much space inside. None of the others enlighten her.

When Harry and Ron are unable to get through the barrier at Platform Nine and Three Quarters, Harry suggests that they should go back to the car and wait. It occurs to Ron that their parents might not be able to get out of the platform any more than they can get in, and that they should take the car and fly to Hogwarts. they do so, in the process crashing into the Whomping Willow on the school grounds. The car then throws them out and wanders off on its own into the Forbidden Forest.

Harry and Ron, venturing into the Forbidden Forest on the trail of the spiders, as Hagrid had advised them, encounter the car, gone feral but still able to recognize Ron as its owner. They are then captured by giant spiders. The spiders take them to Aragog, their leader, who discusses some past events with Harry and Ron, and then consigns them to their fate: to be eaten by his children. The car rescues them, and leaves them at the edge of the Forest.