flying

[hfakhro at nyc.rr.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 16172

> One other little inconsistency is that Dumbledore apparently flies 
a 
> broomstick to London when called there toward the end of SS/PS. I 
> realize that it's probably just because of the fact that JKR hadn't 
> thought up Apparition yet, since Dumbledore should certainly be 
able 
> to Apparate. But it's a Flint, certainly. Maybe he accidentally let 
> his Apparition license expire...

I don't think JKR hadn't thought up Apparition yet.. In the very 
beginning of PS when Dumbledore meets McGonagall at Privet Drive, it 
says "A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, 
appeared so suddenly and silently you'd have thought he'd just popped 
out of the ground." To me, that sounds like he apparated to Privet 
Drive... I don't know about the flying to London thing, but I don't 
think it was a flint...