Apparating

[Cassandra Claire]

No: HPFGUIDX 3257

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, foxmoth at q... wrote:
> --- 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

Hmm. But Dobby couldn't have Apparated to Harry at Hogwarts -- 
remember (puts on bossy Hermione voice) You Can't Apparate Into Or
Out 
Of Hogwarts. :) So that must be house-elf magic of some sort.

I'm thinking that you must need some sort of touchstone (Voldie might 
have worked some spell that allows the Death Eaters to Apparate to
his 
side) or a specific location, or coordinates...otherwise what's to 
stop you Apparating into the middle of a tree?