Vague Thoughts on Apparation

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 93450

I'm confused about apparation and how the students learn it. Curious
about how other see the process.

For illustration, I will use the example of a driver's license in the
USA. For the moment, let's assume that the legal age to drive is 16.
In the US, at age 15 (fifteen), you can get a Learning Permit that
allows you to take driver's training classes, and to drive while
accompanied by an adult licensed driver. Then when you turn 16, you
are ready to take your driving test, and assuming you pass, get a full
unrestricted driver's license.

Shifting the model to the Wizard World, I have always assumed that in
6th year at Hogwarts, the students would be taught how to apparate at
school. Although I don't think it will be a regular full-time, every
week, all year class. Perhaps just an hour or two every a couple times
a week at night for a month, or something like that.

Some how, there have to be classes and there has to be opportunities
for students to learn and try apparating before they take the test for
their license.

True it is illegal for student to apparate before they are 'of
age'(17), but it's also illegal for people to drive (in my example)
before they are of the proper age, but none the less the law allows
for a learning process.

Also, note that for students ALL magic is illegal since they are not
of age, however, in the supervised learning enviroment of school they
are allowed to perform magic. I can't see why Apparation would be any
different.

Back to the driving analogy, I am vaguely aware the Britain does not
use the same model as the USA. Unless I am mistaken, in Britian, you
must reach full legal driving age before you can get your learing
permit. That could throw my suggested model off, but none the less, if
we use all magic as an example, it seems there would be an exception
made while the students learn to apparate at school.

It seems that both Percy and the Twins took there Apparation test at
the beginning of the summer holiday, which implies to me that they
learned the process during the previous school year.

So, does this sound reasonable to everyone, or am I way off base?

Just wondering.

bboy_mn