Apparation (Minerva McGonagall and Sirius Black (Was: Trusting characters )

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 119218


Arcum wrote:
<snip> 
> Third, the concept of apparation hadn't been introduced until PoA.
> Dumbledore appears & disappears, but no one else does, and JKR
> may not have even planned it to be a widely available ability at
> the time. Minerva doesn't even apparate from Privet Drive in Ch. 1
> of PS/SS.
> 
> In fact, oddly, she never is mentioned leaving Privet Drive at all in
> Ch. 1, which is interesting in itself...

Carol responds:
I thought the same thing until I checked recently. Dumbledore watches
her "slinking around the corner at the other end of the street" before
he turned on his heel, and with a swish of his cloak, he was gone"
(SS/PS Am. ed. 16). I suppose this is apparation, Dumbledore style, or
something like it. McGonagall, however, remains in cat form at least
until she disappears from Dumbledore's view--and ours. I doubt,
however, that she returned to 4 Privet Drive or that she remained in
cat form for the entire trip back to Hogwarts.

Similarly, Sirius Black probably changed to human form and apparated
to somewhere near Hogwarts (though not an open street in Hogsmeade)
when he followed Harry from Privet Drive to Hogwarts. Either that, or
the dog had a long walk! At any rate, he didn't have Buckbeak at this
point.

Carol, blushing for forgetting about Buckbeak in another post to this
thread and wondering how the poor creature is coping with the loss of
Sirius