Portkeys - Curses foiled again

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 76221

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "T.M. Sommers" <tms2 at m...> wrote:
> Steve wrote:
> > 
> >>T.M. Sommers
> >>
> >>One factor you didn't mention is that it probably requires an 
> >>intimate knowledge of the destination so that, 


> > bboy_mn: (org)
> > 
> > If I want to be in a small field hidden from view just out side
> > the town of Working, Surrey, or perhaps down a dark alley inside 
> > that city; having never been there, is that general knowledge and 
> > intent sufficient to produce the intended result? I'm not sure. 

> T.M.Sommers
> 
> How do you know that the field is there?  Or that it is not now 
> in the middle of a building?  

bboy_mn:
Because somewhere outside of every town is a small field, and if you
envision a small field then you end up in a small field not a building.

> T.M.S.:
>
>From what we have seen of using a  portkey, the traveller does not 
>have much control.
>

bboy_mn:
True the traveller doesn't have much control, but the
creator/programmer of the Portkey does.

> T.M.S.:
> 
> I am not saying that what I proposed is necessarily true, but it 
> would help explain the restrictions on using portkeys.  On the 
> other hand, those restrictions might just be the ravings of a 
> paranoid bureaucracy.

bboy_mn:
Understoood; I admitted that this was kind of the main grey area
related to magical travel. I find it hard to resolve any of the
remaining questions until I have read first person examples of
Apparation. I think those details will give us clues to resolving
other forms of magical travel. 

I am assuming that during 6th, the student will begin learning
Apparation so that when they turn 17, they are ready to take the test.

Where is that next book? I need that next book.

bboy_mn