Apparation

[Brooks A. Rowlett]

No: HPFGUIDX 3289

Heidi writes:
> I'm wondering if JKR ever spent any time in the 70s watching The Tomorrow
> People, which was a british sci fi for kids show which was on, I believe,
> from 1973 to 1979 - I watched it on nickelodeon here in the states from 82
> to 84, when Nick got much more hip & got rid of all the really cool yet
> cheezy shows like Livewire, 3rd Eye and TP (and when you can't do that on
> television got worse) - the show was basically about "the next stage of
> human evolution" - kids with powers like telekenesis, telepathy and of
> course teleportation (called Jaunting)


Jaunting?  THAT made me sit up and take notice.  Jaunting is the name
for the teleportation skill in Alfred Bester's _The Stars My
Destination_, named that because the first guy who does it has the name
Jaunte.  (Yes, Walter Koenig's character in _Babylon 5_ is named in
honor of that Great Old One Science Fiction writer.)  I missed that on
Nick because i didn't get cable till after that....

As for apparation, I am assuming it is visualization required, like the
Pern Dragons, only mental-recitation spell triggered; and added the
point of a sound effect of the displaced air, like Nightcrawler's in the X-men.

-Brooks A Rowlett