Apparate into Hogwarts? (was Re: Attack on Hogwarts?)

[ariston3344]

No: HPFGUIDX 107376

Angie wrote:
> I don't believe you can't Apparate into and out of the school just
> because it says so in "Hogwarts, A History."


ariston:
Yes, indeed, constant vigilance!  You can't trust everything you 
read. :-)

But personally, I think that the *real* reason it's impossible to 
apparate within Hogwarts is because if you could, that would render 
the barriers to getting the PS in book 1 superfluous.  That is, JKR 
probably didn't decide to include apparition in her world until 
after she had the basic plot of PS finished, and then she either had 
to completely change PS or else explain why the barriers to the 
Stone were effective.  She chose to keep the plot of PS.  Or, 
perhaps she had planned on including apparition all along but just 
overlooked this fairly big hole, and then covered it up in later 
books.

This is pure speculation -- maybe JKR intended to include both 
apparition in general and its impossibility withing Hogwarts all 
along.  But still, I believe it's really true that you can't 
apparate within the Hogwarts grounds.  Not because of what it says 
in _Hogwarts, a History_ (which I really really really want to read 
some day :), but because the plot of PS depends on its being so.  
Yes, it's still *possible* that you really could find a way to 
apparate even though everyone thinks you can't, but if that was a 
possibility the faculty took seriously, they probably wouldn't have 
bothered with all those obstacles.  And if the faculty don't take 
that option seriously, that's good enough for me. :-)

-ariston