Percy's age/apparating classes/test

[Richard]

No: HPFGUIDX 80391

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "msbeadsley" <msbeadsley at y...> 
wrote:
> "bluesqueak" wrote:
> > It's possible that apparition isn't a Hogwarts subject. The 
> > equivalent, Drivers Ed, is *not* taught in most British schools. 
> > You take private lessons outside school hours. If that's the 
case, 
> > it would cut into Percy's NEWTs study time.
> 
> This had occurred to me as well; we never hear of Apparition as a 
> Hogwarts subject.  A very likely why also occurred to me:  you 
> *can't* apparate within the Hogwarts grounds; where would you hold 
> classes? <g>
> 
> Sandy, aka "msbeadsley"'

There is one additional problem with working on one's Apparation 
skills at Hogwarts, which Hermione would, no doubt, point out with 
some degree of exasperation: You can't apparate or disapparate within 
the grounds of Hogwarts.  So, if Percy came of age during the school 
year, he would have to leave the grounds to practice.  Even if he had 
a birthday PRIOR to the start of term, it is plausible that he simply 
didn't have enough time prior to the start of term within which to 
properly develop and perfect this difficult and dangerous skill.

Richard, who sees problems with the "young Percy" theory.