Why fly when you can apparate?

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 175544

Allie:

> 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 herebefore, 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?)

houyhnhnm:

When HRH and Griphook disapparated from Shell Cottage 
they had to go beyond the boundary wall, where the 
Fidelius Charm stopped working.  Lily could probably 
have disapparated with baby Harry if she could have 
gotten outside, but not from within the house.  If 
she'd had a wand maybe she could have used magic to 
get out of the house in the time it took her to pile 
boxes up against the door.  Where was her wand?

I can't find any mention of wands in the Apparition 
lesson in HBP.  Harry disapparated from Godric's Hollow 
without a wand with Hermione but since he was in Voldyland 
at the time, she probably used Side-Along-Apparition and 
she had her wand.  They didn't move their campsite again 
until after Ron brought Harrry the blackthorn wand.  I don't 
know.  I always picture Apparition as being done without 
a wand, but wizards in the Potterverse don't seem to be 
able to do much without one.