[HPforGrownups] R. Amelia Bones?/Apparition inconsistency?

[rklarreich at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 134300

Jen writes:
We have no evidence Bones was in the Order, however. But to be killed personally by LV--what in the world did she do? Was it over the DE's in Azkaban?


Roberta now:

Before the book came out, in the HBP predictions contest on this list Amelia Bones seemed the favorite for new Minister of Magic.  (Based on my own unscientific impressions as I read the posts.)  So when I discovered that Voldemort had killed her, my immediate instinct was that she would have been a strong contender for that post in the wizarding world too, and *that* is why Voldemort killed her.  She would have been too effective, so she had to go.

Unrelated question:  in this book, we learn beyond a doubt that it is 
possible to take someone with you as a sort of passenger when you Disapparate.  So why on earth didn't Lily and James Disapparate from Godric's Hollow with Harry That Night???  Lily at least would likely have had time to do it.

Roberta