Apparate or Die Trying

[grey_wolf_c]

No: HPFGUIDX 39491

Meg Demeranville wrote:
> Warily eyeing Cindy's paddle, Meg crawls out of lurkerdom.

Meg! Good to see you around. You should come more often.
 
> 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. 

Meg, Cindy was saying  that *IF* JKR had described apparating as a Dark 
Art, there wouldn't be as many FLINTS as she see's in the common 
apparating. I don't see as many flints as she does, and definetly 
believe that making it at Dark Art wouldn't make it any easier.

As many other things in the wizard world, apparating is a knack that 
only someone who's got nothing else in his mind can do. Any sort of 
mind trouble could make you fail the apparating, and (suposing that 
another wizard can follow your trail - we know the MoM can) you don't 
want to be reduced to mincemeat when a potential enemy could find you.

> 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.

Which reminds me: we see that the clock goes from "at the office" to 
"traveling" for a while before Arthur arrives ("at home"), so 
apparating *does* take a while - even if it's not visible in either 
place for the duration (take note, Cindy!). I believe that during that 
time, the apparator can be affected by magic in either place. There is, 
of course, no canon either way.
 
> - Meg (still warily eyeing that paddle)

Come on, Meg, do you think I'd leave her hit you? Cindy is, after all, 
just a form of a cat: a sphinx, and there is no cat who would face my 
teeth. Howl!

Hope that helps,

Grey Wolf, who has almost finished today's work