Apparition + Floo WAS Re: Apparition & Fidelius

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 91049

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
 
> My second point is that we know anti-apparation charms exist. 
Hermione
> repeatedly tells us that Hogwarts is protected, and in OotP,
> Dumbledore uses an 'Anti-Disapparation Jinx' to bind the captured
> Death Eaters in the Death Chamber at the Ministry of Magic.
> 
> Given the wizard world's lack of electronic serveillance and
> electronic burglar alarms, or any other electronic devices for that
> matter, it seems quite reasonable that they would have magical
> equivalents.
> 
> It would seem a reasonable speculation that before a business owner
> retires for the night, he activates a magical alarm system, and 
casts
> or activates charms to prevent entry by stealth; seals his fireplace
> against entry, and casts anti-apparation charms. 
> 
> I think we can assume that Apparation has been around for a long 
time,
> and that protections against apparation have been around for nearly 
as
> long.
> 
> So, yes, I can see that wizard houses could be vulnerable, but I 
also
> have to believe magic folk have solved this vulnerability a long 
time
> ago and through a variety of means. 


Marianne here:

I that wizards can protect their homes as well as their businesses, 
whether by anit-apparation charms or some other method.  I wouldn't 
be surprised to discover that charms or jinxes or whatever are used 
to permit some people to enter at whim while strangers are kept out.  
For instance, in OoP, Remus is able to unlock the front door to 
Grimmauld Place by the use of his wand.  Everyone else who comes to 
the door always knocks.  That's not definitive proof one way or the 
other, but it strikes me that this could be interpreted to mean that 
Remus has or knows the magical "key" to unlock the door, whereas the 
other members of the Order don't.  

IIRC this has come up before, and at least one person posted that 
people's natural reaction to coming up to a front door that is not 
their own would be to knock.  Maybe so, but the members of the Order 
are operating with a certain need for secrecy.  If they have the 
magical means to enter Grimmauld Place, why don't they use it, rather 
than hanging around outside, knocking and waking up the every 
charming Mrs. Black? I like to think that Sirius has quite logically 
given some people the key, such as Remus and Dumbledore.

Also, on the matter of home security, in GoF when Sirius contacts 
Harry by fire he says that they might not have much time, since he 
had to "break into" a wizard house, and the owners could return at 
any time.  I may be reading too much into this, but the idea of 
breaking into a wizard house strikes me at being more involved than 
simply breaking a window or jimmying a lock.  I think that wizards 
can use charms to provide protection, and, like our locks, they are 
of different strengths and have different levels of protection. A 
really skilled wizard burglar would be one who is very adept at 
breaking charms like this.  Maybe Bill Weasley could get a second job 
as a cat burglar.

Marianne