[HPforGrownups] Re: Can you Apparate Within Hogwarts?(Was Disapparation inside Hogwarts?)

[Tory Santillie]

No: HPFGUIDX 111344

>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.

Brandy responds:
>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.
>

Dobby's and house elves' apparition/disapparition is entirely different.  
When we first meet Dobby in CoS, Harry received the owl from the MoM for 
underage magic not for apparition but for a hover charm.  Wouldn't the MoM 
been able to detect Dobby's disapparition as well, if it is indeed like that 
of wizards?

tory