Why don't they just Apparate?

[naama2486 <naama2486@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48059

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sixhoursahead 
<sixhoursahead at y...>" <sixhoursahead at y...> wrote:
> I have always been confused why people that know they are about to 
be 
> cursed do not just Apparate.  Ok, sure sometimes they might not be 
> quick enough (hard to imagine or they are surprised, or they are 
like 
> Lily and James who cannot leave a baby behind.  But I just cannot 
> believe that the Death Eaters were able to murder so many wizards.  
> Is it possible that there are forms of Dark Magic that can strip 
> another wizard of his powers temporarily, that maybe actually block 
> them from using Apparition?

Me:

I think it's more of a matter of dignity. A wizard who takes flight 
in a middle of a duel only for being shot at is not that impressing. 
Apparition seems to me the easy way out of these situations, but not 
the dignified one.

It's difficult to say about "Apparition-blocking spells". We know 
Hogwarts has such protection, but then again, Hogwarts is so old that 
the spell is probably some ancient magic now lost ...

Also, most wizards don't Apparate at all. In GoF, Arthur Weasley says 
that many of the WW preferred other means of transportation, and that 
a lot of wizards don't even bother to learn it. So maybe they don't 
Apparate because they can't.

Besides, we're forgetting that in combat, instinct works faster than 
logic. Apparition doesn't seem to me like an instinctive thing, but 
rather a complicated action that requires force of mind. 

Just a couple of thoughts,

 --Naama the New
[ who is now left to reflect scenes where a wizard disappears in the 
nick of time to dodge a curse (prefferably a deadly one), only to 
appear again behind his attacker. Wand poised. ]