[HPforGrownups] Speculations on wizard transport

[Susanna]

No: HPFGUIDX 32994


 
  Tabouli <tabouli at unite.com.au> wrote: 
>Compare this with JKR's wizarding world.  She seems to make >a very clear distinction between the animate and the >inanimate.  We have to assume that a wizard can't take a >passenger with him/her when Apparating, otherwise why didn't >Lily grab Harry and Apparate when Voldemort came?  Perhaps >there's an element of will there: only animate creatures who >are intending to and capable of Apparating can do it.  (where does that leave animals?  Could Ron Apparate with >Pigwidgeon in his pocket, and if not, what would happen?)  

Stretching, yawning and delurking...

Now, there seems to be a very clear technical difference between Apparating and transportation by Portkey, at least I have always been under the impression that Apparating is done by de-materializing and re-materializing, requiring a very strong focusing of mind, otherwise you'd splinch or miss your aim. OTOH, Portkeys appear to be a rather mechanical, if also very fast, mode of travelling, for Harry clearly describes that feeling of being pulled by an invisible cord and of a rush of colours and air. 

This difference at least suggests that you eventually might take along a passenger when portkey-ing somewhere, but I suppose it's dangerous as you would have to hold him, her or it in such a dead grip that your passenger might be hurt or you could downright lose him. But then it seems that once you touch a Portkey and it's activated, you can't let go, which would make it a rather safe way of travelling even for a baby, unless you hit it with your trunk in the process of landing. 

My mental picture of Apparating, however, is that you can take anything with you, if only you cover it completely with your cloak or robes. Which would also have been true for baby Harry. But maybe the house at Godric's Hollow had anti-Apparition protection like Hogwarts, courtesy of AD, and that was why James told Lily to run, namely run outside the shield or whatever and then Apparate away.



>I think we have to assume that making a Portkey is a long >and difficult process, otherwise it opens up too many plot >holes, not the least of which is the infamous Crouch/Moody >and Harry situation ("Harry, could you just grab that book >for me?"  "Sure, Professor MooAAARRGH!" (whoosh to >graveyard))

I'd imagine that Portkeys and their production are rather strictly surveyed by the MoM, otherwise just imagine the chaos- it would be like everybody having an airplane and flying around at their whim, there would be way too many accidents. maybe, if you want a portkey, you even have to file a request to the MoM. Plus, I'm not so sure whether your starting point for a travel by portkey doesn't have to be outside, for if it really is as "mechanical" as I think, you'd crash into the first wall if you started from a closed room. At least, this would be a logical explanation for the fact that Crouch/Moody couldn't simply turn Harry's toothbrush into a Portkey.




>Then there's the ol' teleport problem.  What would happen if >two people Apparated or Portkeyed simultaneously into an >overlapping space, or even into an object like a tree or >building?  This was one of my first thoughts as I read about >people getting to the Quidditch World Cup, I must admit.  >Would some terrible explosion or fusing together happen?  

Hmmm... Maybe that is why they set up an Apparition point somewhere in the woods and seemingly far from the portkey arrival point? To avoid that Arthur Weasley and Lucius Malfoy merge together into a creature hardly imaginable?

Susanna/pigwidgeon37


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