Disapparating; Animagi

[delwyn_march]

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From: delwyn_march
Subject: Re: Disapparating; Animagi
Reply To: [Yahoo! #7189] Disapparating; Animagi
Date: 8/18/00 5:02 pm  (ET)

>>I would think if he's a strong enough wizard to become an animagus
(and he & James Potter were apparently top of their class), he would
know how to apparate & disapparate. My guess is that he wanted to stay
with Buckbeak -- so he chose to fly. I guess he needed Buckbeak to
leave the Hogwarts grounds in the first place since (putting on my best
Hermione voice): "You can't apparate or Disapparate from the Hogwarts
grounds." And, he was rescuing Buckbeak by taking him away. Although I
wonder why Sirius wouldn't turn Buckbeak loose once they were to a point
where Buckbeak could live on his own & Sirius could apparate somewhere
to hide.

I agree with that last point : if Buckbeak was slowing him down, why
didn't just he give him away, or even sold him ?

Plus : at the end of PoA, Sirius tells Harry in his letter that he hopes
he didn't frighten him under his great black dog appearance, and that he
only wanted to take a look at him before starting his journey north. Now,
I would hardly call Apparating a journey : a journey makes it sound like
it was going to take time, while Apparating takes *no* time. So ?

OTOH, it really makes no sense that such a good wizard wouldn't know
how to Apparate ...

Doriane