CHAPDISC3: Protection Lost at 17???/ Apparition before being 17

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 142779

mercurybluesmng wrote:
> Funny, I seem to recall a fair number of not-yet-seventeen-year-olds 
> learning to Apparate in Hogwarts's Great Hall. Case in point: Harry.


Bruce Alan Wilson: 
In OOTP it is speculated that outside of the British Isles kids may be allowed to apparate earlier than 17 (never confirmed or denied).  I think that underage apparation is more a 'malum in prohibendum' than a 'malum in se'.