Queries about Sirius's escape (slight FF)

Devika devika at sas.upenn.edu
Tue Apr 8 16:51:19 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 54932

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "finwitch" <finwitch at y...> 
wrote:
> 
> Angela:
> 
> I doubt he would have had the strength to Apparate.  And even if he 
> could, I would wager that if Hogwarts has anti-Apparition borders, 
> then Azkaban certainly would.  

<snip>

> Maybe he *did* apparate after he got away from that island, 
possibly 
> without even knowing what he was doing?
> 


IIRC, JKR has said that Apparition is strictly regulated by the 
Ministry of Magic so that wizards don't Apparate into other people's 
houses, into bank vaults, etc.  Maybe the Ministry can keep track of 
who is Apparating at a given time.  If that were true, it would 
explain why Sirius wouldn't want to Apparate anywhere at all.  The 
Ministry might be able to track him. 

Also, although I find it difficult to believe that Sirius never 
learned how to Apparate, it's possible that he didn't do it very 
much, even before his arrest, and therefore didn't feel confident in 
his ability not to splinch himself or something like that.  After 
all, before Azkaban, he did have a flying motorcycle.  And, IMO, it's 
much cooler to show up somewhere on a flying motorcycle than by just 
appearing out of thin air <vbg>.

Of course, Sirius's Apparating abilities are irrelevant if the 
Ministry was able to track him in the first place, which I think they 
might be able to do.

Devika, who wants Sirius to get his motorcycle back :)





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