Can you Apparate Within Hogwarts?(Was Disapparation inside Hogwarts?)

[brandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 111299

Pat:
> You've brought up something that has always bothered me.  Dobby 
> comes and goes, which I always took for apparition and disapparition-
> -I hadn't thought about him walking into the grounds first. I just 
> attributed his ability to do that to the strong magic that house 
> elves have and about which we know very little.

I always assumed that this was something other than "apparition" - 
"apparition" seems to be a specific spell that wizards do, while I thought 
of what house elves do as possibly something natural that is just one of 
their inborn modes of transportation.  It just happens to look like 
apparating, but they work in different ways. That's the only way I can 
explain how Dobby seems to be able to apparate all over the place.
 
Also, as for whether or not you can REALLY apparate - I think that if you could, Dumbledore would have used it to escape from his office rather than having to rely on Fawkes to transport him. If anyone at all can apparate on 
the Hogwarts grounds, it would be Dumbledore. ...Right?

> One would think that if they really wanted to protect outsiders from 
> entering Hogwarts secretly, they would not allow people to pop into 
> a fire via floo powder either.

I forget if this discussion was here or on another board... But someone 
pointed out that when Harry was desperate to get to London, he could have flooed to Grimmauld Place, and checked for Sirius at the same time as 
placing him closer to the MoM.  It's possible that the reason he didn't do 
this is b/c you can't use floo powder for transportation in and out of Hogwarts, only for communication, like a telephone line. 

Perhaps it doesn't allow more than your head to go through, or something.  
If you could floo in and out, it would have posed a major security problem 
in PoA at the very least. I'm just not sure why they don't make as big a deal out of not being able to floo as they do of not being able to apparate.

-Brandy