Apparating into the Ministry...

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 92793

Elihu wrote: If apparation/Disapparation isn't possible to all
locations in the MOM, then 
the Dept of Mysteries would be among the places that you can't
apparate to. However, 
Dumbledore had to put the DEs in a room with an anti-apparation jinx.
That means that, 
if fact, you can disapparate from anywhere in the ministry.
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Rachael's Reply: I agree that this is a likely possibility. The
secrecy of the DOM would 
need to be protected by anti-apparation spells because I doubt that
the Ministry would 
even allow the possibility that any old wizard could just apparate
into it (think what the 
Weasley Twins would do if this were possible!)  But, if only select
wizards, 
"unspeakables", are allowed in, there should be no harm in allowing
those authorized 
wizards to disapparate when they are ready to leave.
Another thought is, maybe if a place is spelled against apparation, it
is automatically 
spelled against disapparation.  However, apparation into the DOM I
definitely think is a no, no.


Carol:
I definitely agree that you can't apparate or disapparate into the DoM
itslef. Bode, an "unspeakable" who works in the DoM, may well have
apparated into the atrium (with a lot of other people), but he rides
the lift with Harry and Mr. Weasley. But I'm pretty sure that you
can't apparate or disapparate *anywhere* in the MoM except the atrium,
which is where everyone seems to enter and leave the building--even LV
and Dumbledore. If you can apparate inside the building, why have
lifts on every floor? Even the memos take the lift. 

Carol, who apologizes to Elihu for getting the books wrong in a
previous post (which is what I get for trusting my memory at a late
hour) and points out (politely) that he put two r's in her name in a
different post, so I guess we all make mistakes, right? :-)