HBP ... Anti-Predictions - Apparation & Age

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 127923


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Janet Anderson"
<norek_archives2 at h...> wrote:
> Finwitch suggests:
> 
> > Harry's going to be very angry - particularly after Ron's birthday 
> > at March - his both best friends being of age and thus being 
> > allowed to do things he is not... 


> Janet:
>
> I do not agree.  Ron and Hermione, ... got to go to Hogsmeade ...
> when Harry could not. He wasn't angry, just disappointed. In this
> case, ...others in his year who also won't be of age. Ron will 
> spend most of the year underage, ...
> 
> 
> Janet Anderson

bboyminn:

I see Harry as being angry but only in a very light and general sense;
though annoyed is probably much close to it than angry. 

Also, as Janet implied, Ron won't be of-age until near the end of the
school year. Further none of them have had any training in Apparation,
which we are told is a difficult and dangerous thing to do. I suspect
that training will come during the next (book 6) school year. 

Also, don't forget that even when Hermione and Ron are of-age, they
will still be at Hogwarts which you can't Apparate out of, and even if
they could, it would be against the rules, and there really isn't any
place to Apparate to.

I suspect they will all take their Apparation training during 6th
years, so that they can all then take the test during the summer
between their 6th and 7th year. 

As a side note, because I need it for a story; I'm desperately hoping
the Apparation will indeed be a class they will all take during year
6. JKR has said that the farther you Apparate the more difficult and
dangerous it becomes. I think she said something to the effect that
only the most talented and powerful wizard would dare attempt to
Apparate across a continent. Keeping in mind that she is likely
referring to the European continent. 

So, I am extremely eager to know the exact details of the limits of
Apparation, and the details of how it's done and what it feels like.
(As well as more details about Floo and Portkey limits.) 

I've tentatively set the common safe Apparation limit at about 500km
(310 miles) which would mean that it would take two 'hops' for all but
the most talented wizards to get from Hogwarts/Hogsmead to London
which I suspect is between 400 and 500 miles. Trivia: using rougly 300
mile 'hops' it is possible to go from London to New York; I've worked
it all out on maps. 

It's one of the things that I am most eagerly waiting to find out
about in the next books.

Not sure what that's worth, but there it is.

Steve/bboyminn