Why didn't Sirius apparate?

[deedeee88]

No: HPFGUIDX 82504

"sylviablundell2001" <sylviablundell at a...> wrote:
> The question was: why did Sirius go 
> through all that trouble, swimming for miles and then journeying 
> north when he could have simply apparated once he was outside the 
> prison and re-appeared outside the grounds of Hogwarts.

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Sirius went through all the trouble for one reason...


he was a criminal on the lam...escaping dementors no doubt...they 
are searching for emotion--"goodtime-human fun"...they do not find 
it. Those hungry to the emotions of someone who "actually 
escaped"...set out with a zealous that no one has ever seen before.

2.  Animagi can apparate if they cast spells in animagus forms...  
hence he escaped from prison..(An on-going theory of mine.....)

I suppose the problem is when they arrive in one point apparating and 
leaving disapparating in another form.  This is very difficult.

But house elves...a whole other story...Dobby apparates too much.

Are elves exempt from this?

This explains why they are so loyal..

And why they want to serve...(another post or two here).

Sirius may be rash, but he is not stupid.

He could apparate in his true form if needs be; just as he could 
apparate in his animagi form. (Hence Sirius did slash fat-lady's 
portrait.)

HOWEVER

once he apparates in his true form...who knows if he would change or 
not...(hence Rita returns as a beetle after DD expulses her from the 
grounds yet she returns..this is probably the same reason Sirius can 
return.)

So you can apparate in Hogwarts under any non-MOM already approved 
animagi?!???(maybe--at the least how could the house elf staff "do it 
all)??????  Is this why DD keeps MOM as "at bay" as possible?!?!?!?!

Fudge would be too eager to take ahold of anything that may endanger 
his political office..

"deedeee88"