OotP flints

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No: HPFGUIDX 69979

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lexy582003" <lexy582003 at y...> 
wrote:
> Hi There,
> This is my very first time here and I am keen to connect with like 
> minded adult HP fans. I have just read OotP for the second time and 
> have a few questions. Hagrid mentions that Dumbledore uses the 
> Thestrals if he is going on a journey and doesn't want to apparate 
> (OotP21)- I thought no one could apparate or disapparate in 
Hogwarts -
>  Hermione is very clear about this and mentions it in all the 
books. 
> Does this mean that Dumbledore can do it because he is such a great 
> wizard, or that he is the one who casts the protection spells over 
> Hogwarts and is therefore exempt?

He would just walk off Hogwart's ground, then apparate where he needs 
to go.  That's what Hagrid means, I'm sure.

> Also, a continuity question - OotP24 states that Pigwidgeon bursts 
> out of his cage on Ron's knee when the Knight bus veers - when did 
> Ron get Pigwidgeon from Hogwarts? If I remember correctly Ron and 
his 
> siblings were transported to Grimmauld Place by portkey from 
> Dumbledore's office and he didn't have Pigwidgean with him.
> These are just questions that have come to me now that the first 
read 
> frenzy is over and I can digest the book properly.

You've read it more recently, so I suppose you would have a clearer 
memory, but I could have sworn that somewhere it mentions how they 
got their luggage from Hogwarts.  I don't have the book at hand, so I 
can't look right now.