[HPforGrownups] Re: What Can Apparate? My Theory

[Martin Soilleux-Cardwell]

No: HPFGUIDX 54395


> > I asked:
> > > How did the Durmstrang ship get into Hogwarts lake if it didn't
> > > apparate there?
>
>Steve (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.

[snip]

>Transfer Charm:
>We have seen many examples of what, for lack of a better name, I call
>Transfer Charms. Dumbledore ... sleeping bags ...

[snippety snip]

>Water Travel:

[snip snippy snip]

But my question remains unanswered: How does the ship get there? I'll add 
the (perhaps) un-neccessary rider that it has a bunch of people on it. And 
apparating into Hogwarts is the most underlined no-no in the books.

So - it must have arrived physically. When this line of thinking came to me 
ages ago I immediately thought of underground rivers, or at least a surface 
feeder river from the lake to a point outside Hogwarts into which the ship 
*could* apparate, then submerge to surface on the Hogwarts lake. Messy 
though. Can't say I like it.

I have to shrug at this point and suggest another JKR inconsistency. 
Please, if you go to a book sigining ask JK this one for me - it's driving 
me nuts!

Regards
Martin
"...I want to fix that in my memory for ever," said Ron, his eyes
closed and an uplifted expression on his face. "Draco Malfoy, the
amazing bouncing ferret..."