Why fly when you can apparate?

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 175542

Steve:
"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."

In "Quiddich Through the Ages", she says that one can't Apparate across the
ocean from Britain to America, and on her website she said that nobody flew a
broomstick all the way across the Atlantic until sometime in the 1940s. Hence,
wizards who want to travel transcontinental or transoceanic distances must use
Muggle means or go by hops.  (No mention of how the Weasleys got to Egypt.)


Bruce Alan Wilson

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.  Other forms of
transport grow daily more nightmarish.  Only the bicycle remains pure in
heart."--Iris Murdoch



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