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

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Tory Santillie" 
<fotoger1 at h...> wrote:

Apparition, yes, hmmmmmmmmmmm............. when does Harry get to 
learn it? Was his jumping onto the school roof to evade Dudley 
(SS/PS) a type of apparition? If so, why couldn't he have just 
apparated away from that graveyard, or the MoM when the DE's showed 
up? Or there (To the MoM) instead of needing thestrals? 

Percy and the twins have learned to apparate during the time-frame 
of the books (and btw it seems to be wandless magic), so when do 
Hogwarts students get taught this? Why is Harry, so advanced in 
other respects magically, so delayed in this one.

Also, talking of basic skills, when (apart from the single lesson in 
PS/SS are they taught to fly a broomstick? What does Madame Hooch 
teach and why do we never see the trio having lessons with her? 
Surely 'sports/PE/games whatever' is a core subject at all muggle 
schools and in WW would include mastery of a broomstick/flying. It's 
just something JKR has left out. Presumably bacause it doesn't move 
the plot anywhere. A similar subject would be art - just how DO you 
paint a picture that captures the essence of the sitter to the point 
where subjects can flit from one painting to another and so on?

I suspect that the answers to all these questions is that it doesn't 
serve the plot for Harry to do or be able to do many of these things 
just yet or perhaps at all. Just like his not ever having really 
asked questions about his parents (what did they do? where was the 
money from? aren't there ANY relatives still alve? Who were their 
best friends and what can they tell him about them? etc etc). It's 
all very well to postulate that Petunia and Vernon beat the urge out 
of him to ask questions but in fact he asks Hagrid a gazillion 
questions that serve the plot when they first meet and then almost 
nothing thereafter. If we know too much too early, such as why 
Sirius had to die, then it ruins the impact later on. 

Poor JKR she can't satisfy us and we, in turn can't have it all ways 
AND, as she says, we don't *really* want to know the answers anyway, 
especially if we actually get close to revealing really important 
stuff for the plots of books 6 and 7 and, in the effort, spoil our 
own enjoyment in reading what I am sure will be equally excelent 
books to read as the others. Aaaaaaaaaarggghhhhhhh.