Why fly when you can apparate?

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 175538

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Allie:
> > > Flying? Why fly?
> 
> > > Apparition is much, much faster! ..
> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> > JKR indicated long ago that each form of magical 
> > travel had its limits. Though she never spells it 
> > out, it seems the limit to Apparation is how long 
> > you can hold your breath. Certainly you can travel 
> > far and fast, but not /that/ far and not /that/fast.
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Voldemort was on his way back from Nurmengard to Malfoy 
> Manor when Harry saw him "flying through the sky from far 
> away, over a dark and stormy sea [snort], and soon he 
> would be close enough to Apparate . . . ."
> 
> Between Central Europe and Wiltshire, the only body 
> of water that would be passed over is the English Channel.  
> In fact, a straight line from  Nuremburg (some have noted 
> the similarity in names) to Wiltshire would pass more or 
> less over Calais and intersect the the English coast a 
> little south of Dover.  So, Calais to Salisbury=440 miles, 
> too far to Apparate.  Dover to Salisbury=171 miles, not 
> too far to Apparate. 
> 

Allie again:

The holding-one's-breath limitation does make sense, although I must 
be dense, I never made that connection from the canon.  I thought 
the horrible squeezing feeling was from compressing mass into 
nothingness.  

Maybe that's why Lily couldn't apparate away with baby Harry, how 
could a baby hold its breath long enough to get anywhere?  
Apparation could kill it.  (I think I've seen that theory here 
before, but not the holding breath part of it.)  (And I think we're 
told that Lily didn't have her wand, do you need a wand to apparate?)