What Can Apparate? My Theory

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 54374

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "erisedstraeh2002"
<erisedstraeh2002 at y...> wrote:
> Martin asked:
> 
> > How did the Durmstrang ship get into Hogwarts lake if it didn't 
> > apparate there?
> 
> Now me:
> 
> I have absolutely no idea, but your question leads me to wonder about 
> whether ships, or any other inanimate object for that matter, can 
> apparate.  ...edited...
> 
> ~Phyllis

bboy_mn:

Apparation:
My theory is that you can apparate with anything you can possess. For
example, you possess your clothes, so when you apparate, they come
with you.

Better example- If you are sitting in a chair and apparate the chair
stays behind, because, while you are using it, you do not possess it.
On the other hand, if you pick the chair up and hold it while you
apparate, you do then possess it and it apparates with you.

My guess is that the vendors at the World Cup cast a tranfer charm and
apparated at the same time, or at nearly the same time.

Remember all magic is modified by the intend of the person casting the
magic, so if your intent is that the chair you are sitting on, then
you could force it to come with you, but I think that is the exception
rather than the rule. That is, it would take a forced effort.


Transfer Charm:
We have seen many examples of what, for lack of a better name, I call
 Transfer Charms. Dumbledore transfers hundreds of squashy sleeping
bags from where ever they are stored to the Great Hall. Dumbledore
transfers tea and cakes to Hagrid's hut. Since things that are
conjured are not permanent, I have to assume that, in these examples,
Dumbledore tranferred the objects rather than creating them; sleeping
bags transferred from storage, and tea and cakes transferred from the
kitchen. Also, food is transferred from the tables in the kitchen to
the tables in the Great Hall.

It's possible that some variation of a Transfer Charm is the standard
method of shipping goods. Like shipping books to the book store. The
books are transferred from the warehouse, immediately after a delivery
wizard apparates to the bookstore and has the store manager sign for
the deliver of books.

Water Travel:
Someone else suggested the idea of water travel in the same sense as
fire travel. Now all we need is a good name for it. A name with a
double meaning like 'Floo' which means both 'flue' as in a fireplace
chimney flue and 'flew' as in what it feels like to travel by Floo
powder. 

So what would a good double meaning word be for Water Travel?

Floa Powered maybe (floa = flow)?

Just one man's opinion.

bboy_mn