Apparate or Die Trying (WAS TBAY: MACHINGARMCHAIR)

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 39461

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "cindysphynx" <cindysphynx at c...> wrote:
> Charis Julia wondered:
> 
> >Why don't 
> > all the wizards Voldemort and the DEs went after just * 
> >Disapparate*? Is this (no!) a FLINT? I mean * why*? Somebody comes 
> >at you with a wand, you see the word Imperio, or Crucio or Avada 
> >Kedavra or whatever forming on their lips and you just * sit 
> >there*! Even though you're a wizard? <snip>
> > 
> > Now granted not all wizards can Apparate. Fine I accept that. But 
> > hey, don't tell me Frank Longbottom the famous Auror couldn't! Not 
> > James the Animagus surely! So, what's up?
> 
> Oh, Charis Julia.  You really struck a nerve with me, sending me 
> into a full-blown uncontrollable *rant* about this!
> 
> This *is* bothersome, isn't it?  JKR has not done a single thing to 
> explain the many instances when wizards ought to apparate out of 
> trouble but just don't.  Sheez, all kinds of wizards just *stand* 
> there all flummoxed, about to be blasted to *bits* when they should 
> be popping right out of there?  
<snip example>
> Cranky!Cindy

The easiest reason is that it takes a little time to apparate, during 
which time you're half-here/half-there, which explains how can bodies 
mix when several people do it at once, and how things can go wrong *in 
pieces*: if it was instantaneous, they might be other problems, but 
there would be no reason for your arm to be left behind.

During those precious seconds, a wizard cannot do a simgle blessed 
thing, and he's fully in the aim of his enemy, so apparating cannot be 
used for a quick escape, or you would be blasted into smitherins when 
you started to fade (and became a sitting duck).

Another possiblity is that there is a simple spell any fith-year knows 
that will stop someone from apparating (again, with umpleasant 
secondary effects, like daze at being shocked into corporality, or 
whatever), so trying to apparate will just sell you to the enemy.

Finally, an idea tying with my theories on wizard magical shields 
(enchantments that will deflect or repell most spells except 
unforgivables), it's possible that they prevent you from apparating (in 
the same way the prevent magic from coming in), so if you are preparing 
for a duel and you put on a shield or two, your options are shut in the 
apparating department unless you want to lower your shields (this last 
idea has almost no canon to back it up. The others, I believe, are 
somewhat more probable).

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf