Is there really such a thing as Disapparating?

[madorganization]

No: HPFGUIDX 132900


>davenclaw: 
>   But the way that JKR refers to them, it is as if they are really 
> two separate events, as though you first concentrate on 
> disapparating from where you are, and then once you've disapparated, 
> you have to focus on where you want to go, and then you apparate.  
> What happens if you get struck by something at the split second that 
> you are disapparating?  Can you be unconscious while "in limbo" and 
> lost?  Or is this simply a matter of imprecise speech, and there is 
> only one act?
> 


Alisha:

I believe it's the same sort of difference as the one between imigrate 
and emigrate.  One means to move /to/ a different country from your 
home country and one means to move /from/ your home country to a 
different country.  To the person moving, they are always emigrating, 
to the person who lives in the country of destination, they are always 
imigrating.

So to the wizard doing the apparating, they are always disapparating 
(leaving their current location), but to someone who sees them arrive, 
they are always apparating (arriving at the final location).

-Alisha