Apparating

[Potterfanme]

No: HPFGUIDX 81451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "feetmadeofclay" 
<feetmadeofclay at y...> wrote: 
> LOL!  It never occured to me they were trying to keep people IN 
> Hogwarts.  You make it sound like a prison.  I would assume kids do 
> often try to get away. Though I would think it is probably against 
> the rules to leave the grounds without permission. 
> 
> I always assumed the reason apparition was blocked was to keep 
people 
> from getting in.  Presumably if you could apparate about the place, 
> the kids would not be safe in their houses. Passwords would be 
> irrelevant.  
> 
> Golly

LOL is right!  I think you missed my point!!  I didn't mean for it to 
sound like a prison <grin>.  Though I think Harry may sometimes feel 
like it is when everyone is angry with him!  It just seems that most 
feel certain people can't have gone places due to the fact that they 
can't apparate from the grounds.  My point is that it would only take 
the time to walk out of the front gates to be able to apparate.  Not 
knowing just how far away the front gates are from the castle, it is 
hard to say how much time it would take to get off the grounds.  

For instance, a lot of posters feel that Snape could not possibly 
have been at the graveyard.  Why not?  Yes he was at Hogwarts at the 
end of the TWT but what is to say that when the dark mark burned, he 
didn't apparate from outside the gates then when Harry portkeyed 
back, he simply apparated back and slipped through the gates and 
showed up as tho he was never gone.

Obviously everyone is free to come and go as they please as evidenced 
in OOP when the DA leaves on the Thestrals.  Could there be some sort 
of spell on the gates to let someone know when a person passes 
through them?  Of course, if this was the case, Snape would have 
known or been able to find out if the DA had left the grounds.  Too 
many questions!

Susan-who always enjoys a little friendly banter with Golly!!