How did Molly & Arthur get home in CS?

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No: HPFGUIDX 22781

> When Ron & Harry took the Ford Anglia to Hogwarts, how did Molly 
and 
> Arthur get home that day? Did they apparate? If they did apparate, 
> why didn't they apparate themselves into the Ford Anglia and drive 
> the two to school? 


I have thought about this before, and i came to the conclusion that 
you can't apparate to something in particular, but only a particular 
place.  An example would be that your csr is parked on the corner 
of ... lets say Magnolia and Privet.  You can apparate to this 
corner, but not to the car, if you didn't know where it was parked.  
Because they didn't know the cars exact location, they could not 
apparate to it.  Also the car was moving, and if they apparated to 
where the car was, once the apparation started, the car would be gone 
by the time they got there, which leave Mr and Mrs Weasley falling 
several miles back to the ground...  

Another thought that i had regarding how the Weasley parents were to 
get home, was they were going to apparate home and leave the car 
there all year, so they didn't have to drive more than twice a 
year...  

But then again, did they not notice that two of the kids they had 
taken to the train had failed to pass through the border?  why 
couldn't they have just apparated back to the main area and find Ron 
and Harry and demand an explaination?  

I have one more question regarding apparation.  In PS Dumbledore 
apparated to Privet Drive.  Then he told Minerva that he must 
have "passed a dozen celebrations on his way"  So does that mean that 
when you apparate, you still see everyones house?  Its the same as 
walking, buy you're invisable?  that seems rather inconvienant to 
me...Any thoughts?