[HPforGrownups] Re: Apparating

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81621


from Jana

> Maybe this has been questioned before, however if you cannot apparate
> or disapparate on Hogwarts, how does Dobby in COS, when Harry is in
> the hospital and hears Dumbledore bringing in Colin Creevey (I think
> it was him, I don't have the books here).  How does Dobby make the
> loud crack, that I assume is associated with apparating.  I say
> assume based on canon when Percy is apparating, and Fred & George
> learn to apparate.
>

This brings me to an interesting thought...

Students have to learn to Apparate and Disapparate... presumably on the
school grounds.

IIRC, Hermione states that you can't Apparate / Disapparate onto or off of
the school grounds... but she never says anything about doing it ON the
school grounds.

Perhaps the border of the grounds acts as a warding circle, preventing
travel across the line, but not on either side of it.

Which explains why Dobby could Disapparate.  He could simply pop from the
room in the hospital wing to the edge of the grounds, cross off the grounds,
and then pop back to the Malfoy's residence.  In doing this, he wouldn't
have actually been (Dis)Apparating onto or off of the school grounds.


Comments?


Iggy McSnurd
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