Why didn't the Potters disapparate?

[Sam Brown]

No: HPFGUIDX 23172

Lisa wrote:
> This may sound like a really obvious question, but why didn't Lily 
and James just disapparate when Voldemort showed up?

Perhaps Godric's Hollow is like Hogwarts in that you can't apparate 
to or disapparate from the premises. Perhaps they did this so that 
none of their enemies could apparate into their home at any time. 
It's my understanding that you can't disapparate from a place you 
can't apparate to (from what Hermione tells us in GoF, about 
apparition regarding Hogwarts), so maybe this is why they didn't 
(couldn't) disapparate.

Pippin wrote:
> It's pretty clear that Apparition works only on the person casting 
the spell. 

This theory also makes a lot of sense. The Potters are hardly going 
to apparate away and leave their one year old son behind. From what 
we've seen in the books, apparition takes the person and their 
possessions, but not other living things.

Sam