Apparating

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No: HPFGUIDX 3254

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Cassandra Claire" <
cassandraclaire at m...> wrote:
> I apologize if someone has asked this question before, but I was 
> wondering about Apparating. Can a wizard simply Apparate himself 
> wherever he likes, whenever he likes? I know there are splinching 
> issues, but what I'm wondering is: can you only apparate to places 
> you've already been, or places you somehow have been given the 
> 'coordinates' to, or can you Apparate anywhere, even to a place
> you've never seen or been before? If so, that seems somehow 
> too...easy.
> 
> Any thoughts?
		
	It sounds like you can apparate toward a particular place, as the 
wizards do to get to the world cup, or toward a particular person, as 
Dobby does to get to Harry at Privet Drive and Hogwarts (Hogwarts!!). 
[The wizards seems to have a blind spot about security at Hogwarts 
which reminds me of the French in WWII thinking no army could get
past the Maginot line or through the forest of Ardennes]
	The DEs can apparate to wherever Voldemort is. Presumably they 
haven't been to Little Hangleton before and Dobby can't have been to 
Privet Drive before. Perhaps to get to a particular place you do have 
to know where it is, but to get to a person, you need some kind of 
connection with them. Are the rules the same for house elves and 
wizards? We don't know that either.
Pippin