Prince/Hans/Salazar/Apparation/Christmas/Hermione/Wand/MuggleClothes/Abuse

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No: HPFGUIDX 126348







Snow wrote in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforG
rownups/message/126017 :

<< her reasons for not sending him to Durmstrang, as far as her son
and husband are concerned, were that it was too far. What is too far
away for a witch who can apparate or use floo powder, sounds like a
lame excuse if I ever heard one >>

Catlady replied:

QUIDDITCH THROUGH THE AGES says that Apparation is more dangerous the
longer the distance covered and only the most talented mages try to
Apparate across entire continents. It says that wizards used ships to
cross oceans until a broomstick capable of flying so long a distance
was invented. I think JKR views Apparation and Floo as a great deal
more limited than us readers do, and never thought of Steve bboyminn's
plan of Apparating across the continent by a series of short
Apparations from city to city.

Snow again:

I can agree with you about the apparation point when it becomes a 
long distance, but Durmstrang wouldn't be that far from the UK would 
it, something on the order of east coast to west coast of the U.S.? 
The main point of my post was that there were other methods that 
could be used for communication besides apparation between Draco and 
Narcissa if Narcissa would have really wanted Draco to attend 
Durmstrang as the school of choice. Since Narcissa chose this lame 
excuse, of Durmstrang being too far, for her reasoning behind her 
apprehension for Draco to attend Durmstrang, I would suspect that she 
had an alternative reasoning. 
Remember they (the Malfoy's) are of the dark arts side of the 
spectrum per se and would know of many ways of communication. I mean 
if the good side has two-way mirrors for communication and the like, 
wouldn't the dark side have at the very least the equivalent? 
Narcissa could have found many ways in which to communicate with 
Draco if he had attended Durmstrang but she insisted that Draco did 
not attend Durmstrang because it was just too far, can you really 
rationalize that as an excuse with all of the wizarding resources 
that they have available for communication? 

Snow