ChapDisc HBP 27, The ...Tower: To & From the Cave

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 163035

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "cubfanbudwoman"
<susiequsie23 at ...> wrote:
>
> Beatrice wrote:
> <snip, snip, snippety-snip of the lovely summary>
> > 1.	If Harry is able to apparate to Hogsmead from the nearest 
> > boulder, why couldn't they have apparated closer to the cave and 
> > saved themselves the climb and the tiring swim?
> 
> SSSusan:
> See, I just love this question!  Why not, indeed?  I may be way off, 
> but when a question like this comes up, I always have an image of 
> JKR doing a forehead smack and saying, "Eh, I should have thought of 
> that!"
> 
> I do think that I've heard postulated the idea that DD wasn't sure 
> of the *precise* location of the cave, though, only its general 
> area.  ...edited...

bboyminn:

Here is the obvious difference between going to the cave and returning
to Hogwarts. Going to the Cave is an unknown. Dumbledore knows the
cave is protected, but he doesn't know specifically how and where
those protective enchantments are placed, so logically, he arrives at
a distance and proceeds with caution.

Hogwarts/Hogsmead however is very much a known quantity. He can
apparate directly there and know exactly what he will find and where
he will find it. 

Just a thought.

Steve/bboyminn