[HPforGrownups] Re: Harry at Hogwarts year 7

[jlcaron at gmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 133918

> Jody:
> The one thing that I was hoping would bring Harry, Ron and Hermione  
> back to
> Hogwarts, at least temporarily, is the fact that they don't have  
> their license
> to Apparate yet. Ron failed his (conveniently for this storyline)  
> and Hermione
> and Harry were not yet of age in time for the first test.

Actually, Hermione passed her Appartion test. She and Ron took it at  
the same time (in Hogsmeade, when he left behind half an eyebrow).  
When they got back, she tells Harry that she passed.

 From Chapter 22, After the Burial:

"Ron and Hermione returned in the late afternoon.

'Harry!' cried Hermione as she climbed through the portrait hole.  
'Harry, I passed.'

'Well done!' he said. 'And Ron?'

'He — he just failed,' whispered Hermione, as Ron came slouching into  
the room looking most morose." (HPB2/US)

I agree, though, that Appartion will probably be necessary if they're  
going to be searching for the horcruxes in Book 7.

jlc