[HPforGrownups] Re: Why the Knight Bus?

[Mary]

No: HPFGUIDX 45791

On Fri, Oct 25, 2002, dowen331 wrote:
> One other aspect of apparation:  Having just caught up on reading old
> JKR interviews, I read in one of them that apparation is regulated by
> the MOM, and that anytime a wizard apparates the MOM knows about it.
> (This is how they keep wizards from apparating into bank vaults, etc.)

Wouldn't Gringotts have the protection from apparation that Hogwarts
has? That said, I guess having strangers able to apparate inside your
house is equally undesirable. The protection Hogwarts has from
apparation is presumably a difficult and unusual protection, not
something every wizard casts on their house (the Weasleys obviously
haven't anyway - Percy apparates downstairs every morning after he
passes his test).

I'm surprised that they don't do the same thing for portkeys, given that
Voldemort's trick with the cup would do nicely for robbing someone, or
getting inside Gringott's (you do need to convince someone to take it
inside their house or vault though).

-Mary