How to Catch an Apparator?

[Zen]

No: HPFGUIDX 74219

I think that the inability/prohibition on apparation applies only to 
wizarding folk.  Fawkes and house-elves are magical creatures by 
their very nature-- in a different way than humans, because (as far 
as we know) they don't require training to deploy their magic.  
Whatever Fawkes does isn't apparation as wizarding folk know it, and 
apparently he can take along with him whoever he wants to.

Zen

> Me (Jason):
> With as many times as Hermione and Snape mention that you can 
apparate or 
> disapparate inside the castle, I can't help but think it is going 
to play a 
> role. Has anyone mentioned the fact that it would appear that this 
rule 
> does not apply to DD and Fawkes who both seem to appear and 
disappear from 
> places in the castle. In CoS Fawkes magically appeared down in the 
Chamber. 
> In OoP Fawkes pops off to deliver a message to Molly and to serve 
as a 
> guard to warn of Umbridge. Finally DD and Fawkes both do a 
vanishing act 
> after DD takes out the Aurors and MoM people. At first I thought 
he'd just 
> turned himself invisible and waited for everyone to leave, but then 
when 
> Harry portkeys in to the office the portraits mention that things 
have been 
> dull without Dumbledore around. So I wonder if there is another 
magical way 
> of travelling that doesn't have the popping/cracking sound of 
apperation 
> and CAN be used in Hogwarts...or do the rules not apply to the 
greatest 
> wizard of our time?