[HPforGrownups] Apparating inside Hogwarts

[MadameSSnape at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 59545

In a message dated 6/7/2003 10:54:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cmarsmith at yahoo.com writes:

> Does anyone know if canon merely prohibits Apparating in to and out 
> of Hogwarts but not from one place within the castle to another place 
> within the castle? We are obviously ment to believe that this is not 
> possible, but do we know that it's not the case?

I can't think of any case in canon in which we can PROVE that a human 
character Apparated within Hogwarts.  My assumption has been that the ability of the 
house-elves to appear & disappear at will is tied to their own magic, which is 
apparently quite different in some respects from that of humans.  It's also 
the house-elves who move the food around (though IIRC - & I haven't read the 
book in a while - the sandwiches in Snape's office aren't brought in, but 
conjured by Minerva).

So far, we've only had little hints of the powers of house-elves - I suspect 
we're going to see a great deal more of them VERY soon.

Sherrie
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