Slightly OT: Thoughts on Apparation

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 42541

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "bboy_mn" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> Honor Among Thieves-
> How is anything safe from theft in the magic world? You could just 
pop
> into the local jewlery store, fill your pockets, and pop out. Stores
> and shops may have some enchantments, but I would assume that during
> business hours, legitimate customers would pop in and out all the
> time. As far as peoples homes, it would seem very easy to rob them.
> They may have antiapparation enchantments, but that would also stop
> you from apparating into and out of your own home.

Well, not necessarily.  Why couldn't one set up anti-apparation 
enchantments that keep everyone out except whoever the family in 
question wants to let in?  My enchantments can be set up to keep you 
out, but my husband/adult children can apparate in.  And, since I 
trust several friends with my life and my jewelry, I can set up the 
enchantments to allow them in, too, in the same way my Muggle self 
can hand over a key to the front door. 

And if I want to make people walk through the door into my shop and 
not apparate into the back room and steal my stock, my anti-
apparation devices can be set up to do that.

But, then that makes me think.  Can a powerful wizard overcome 
whatever enchantments a weaker wizard puts on his/her house?  Or are 
there other ways around it?  In GOF Sirius tells Harry he's broken 
into a wizard home to use their fireplace for the 1:00 AM head-in-the-
fireplace talk.  If, as I've always assumed (sorry I can't quote 
canon here because I simply don't remember it, if it exists) one 
needs a wand to apparate, then Sirius had some other way to break 
into the house.  And, if that's the case, what good is an anti-
apparation charm if someone can just pick your locks or jimmy your 
window open? Or was this a trusting wizard family that felt that 
their neighborhood was a safe one and they didn't need any 
complicated locking/protective wards?  

Marianne, queen of the deadbolts