Another inconsistency?

[mz_annethrope]

No: HPFGUIDX 176439

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Sharon Hayes <s.hayes at ...> 
wrote:
>
> 
> >   Sharon:
> >   <snipping>
> >   So neither Ron nor Harry had a lisence to Apparate.
> >   Yet in DH, we see them both Apparating all over the
> >   place. We know Harry didn't go for his lisence
> >   becuase he left on the quest for Horcruxes almost as
> >   soon as he turned seventeen. Maybe Ron did go for
> >   his test as some
> >   stage, but we never hear about it. My take is that,
> >   in the uproar
> >   surrounding Voldemort taking over the MOM and
> >   Hogwarts, etc, that the MOM wasn't being too rigid
> >   about rules.
> >
> >   Monica:
> >
> >   I believe that Hermione was actually doing side
> >   along apparition to take the 2 of them with her
> >   where she went, which is how they all ended up in
> >   the same forest when the deatheater apperated with
> >   them to #12 grimmauld place.
> 
> Sharon again:
> But Ron and Harry apparate separately to Shell Cottage from the 
Malfoy Manor, 
> and Ron apparates a few times trying to come back after he walked 
out on Harry 
> and Hermione. It's such a minor detail, but it's one of those 
niggly things I just 
> wonder about.  What happens if you apparate without a license 
(Think I spelt it 
> right this time. LOL)
>

mz_annethrope:

I don't see the problem. Let's put it this way, in GoF Molly tells 
the underage twins they can't apparate because they don't have a 
license. She's laying down the household rules. Then Arthur mentions 
a couple who apparated without a license, splinched and had to pay a 
heavy fine. But isn't that because they got caught?

As long as the person who apparates without a license is of age the 
apparition shouldn't be noticed unless the person is sighted or gets 
splinched. It's no different from the Muggle world. People drive 
without a license all the time, but if they get into an accident or 
if they get pulled over for a moving violation they're in real 
trouble if they don't have a license.

There's plenty of illegal magic going on in the Potterverse. James, 
Sirius and Rita are all unregistered Animagi and a number of people 
perform unforgiveable curses without getting in trouble. Then 
there's Sturgis who was arrested because he was put under the 
Imperius Curse and not because he was doing anything illegal under 
his own will. Sounds like the real world to me.

People do all sorts of illegal things all the time and don't get 
caught. Goodness, I still haven't had a moving violation.
 
mz_annethrope, who hopes this confession doesn't jinx her.