[HPforGrownups] Re: Apparate or Die Trying

[Meg Demeranville]

No: HPFGUIDX 39484

Warily eyeing Cindy's paddle, Meg crawls out of lurkerdom.

Cindy wrote: <snip> So far, the only real purpose of establishing the ability to apparate is to explain how the DEs wind up in the graveyard.  So JKR could have linked apparating to Voldemort.  Just make it a Dark Art possible only via the Dark Mark on Voldemort's command and be done with it. <snip>

Waving her hand in the air and begging "Pick me, Pick me", Meg replies: But we also have other instances of apparation. In CoS p. 69 Scholastic Hardback:

"They don't need the car!" said Ron impatiently. "They know how to Apparate! You know, just vanish and reappear at home! They only bother with Floo powder and the car because we're all underage and we're not allowed to Apparate yet...."

So apparation can not be a Dark Art because that would make Arthur and Molly both linked to Voldemort. We know that there are people who believe that Percy is evil, but Molly and Arthur too, then who are the good guys in these books?  Besides, apparation also allows for Harry and Ron to take the car to Hogwarts without leaving Arthur and Molly stuck at King's Cross station. 

Elkins wrote: <snip> We never see anyone save Dobby (who as an Elf has special magical powers and therefore is not bothered by shields and such) apparate in or out of a house.  (Percy does so *inside* the Burrow, but apparating down the stairs does not involve crossing the boundaries of the house itself.)  I imagine that this is because all wizarding houses are protected, as Hogwarts is, against this form of intrusion as a matter of basic security.  If you can't apparate in, then you can't disapparate out.  This covers the Potters, the Longbottoms, and Peter in the Shrieking Shack.  <snip>

But we do see Arthur Weasley apparating into his house.  "Before any of them could say anything else, there was a faint popping noise, and Mr. Weasley appeared out of thin air at George's shoulder." (GoF 52)

So it must therefore be possible to apparate into a house since everyone was in the kitchen at the time. I think even Harry would have noticed had Arthur walked into the room from outside rather than just apparating in. 

I am not sure where this leaves us but that is the can(n)on behind apparation. Please forgive me if I stepped on any toes.

- Meg (still warily eyeing that paddle)



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