Questions about Apparition

[Bex]

No: HPFGUIDX 164300

> Carol:
> So, do plot needs override consistency and logic not only for young
> Sirius Black and his flying motorcycle but for Apparition in 
general,
> or am I the only one who's confused?
> ===============================
> Jeremiah:
> Now, this is in reference to the "Under-Age" decree. This leads me 
to
> assume that the MoM is not totally capable of knowing everything at
> anytime.   
> 
> 
> Raechel responds:
> 
> However, there is one thing that I find most interesting about
> Apparition and the ability to track it.  In HBP chapter 
> entitled "An Excess of Phlemgm" Mrs. Weasley's famed clock is able 
> to tell her when any of her family members are travelling.  


blitz now:
Yes, but I would assume that the clock is very custom made (as it 
has enough hands for each family member.) I would imagine that the 
clock has something of each family member inside it, or some such, 
that connects it to the person it is "monitoring".

While that magic exists, we don't know where the clock came from, 
what it took to make it, or how long. Perhaps the "link" between the 
family member and the hand on the clock is a physical piece of them 
(blood is the first thing that comes to mind, though the hands being 
fashioned with a lockk of hair enclosed (like a wand) couold work as 
well.) In which case tracking fugitives by means of a Weasley clock 
would be very difficult - Law Enforcement would have to get 
the "linking" item, get the clock built - and still wouldn't be able 
to tell exactly where the person is. (Arthur is "travellihng", but 
there's no way to tell where to.)

I look at this like a physics theory. The theory is:
We can know how fast an electron is moving, or its position, at any 
given time, but never both.

So, perhaps we have the same problem with Wizards? We can know when 
they are moving, or what means, but it may be impossible to know all 
the details at one time.

I was more intrigued by Carol's section in her post about the 
destination being a person - it never occured to me that if Bella 
can do that with Cissy, or if the DEs can do it with LV, then Aurors 
could surely do it with an escaped convict?

There would be trouble regarding the possibility of the convict 
being in the Caribbean (nice place to be - it's 20 degrees out right 
now in S. Indiana) - Apparition is unreliable over long distances.

We could assume that Cissy screamed "I'M GOING TO SEE SEVERUS AND 
YOU CAN'T STOP ME!" right before she apparated to Spinner's End, 
which would write off Bellatrix apparating to Narcissa. And DD 
apparated to the cave, but he'd done his research - he knew *where* 
the cave was. Perhaps he had even gotten some information regarding 
where Sluggy was staying that week (but Sluggy moved around a  lot - 
that was some fresh information DD had). But I can't logically 
explain the DEs knowing to apparate to a graveyard outside Little 
Hangleton just because "the Dark Lord likes it there". Either the 
graveyard was a very common meeting place (I doubt - what a *great* 
clubhouse </sarcasm>), or the Dark Mark call gives a location with 
the burning, searing pain (how, though?. The only way we can explain 
this one is that they all apparated to LV as a destination. And then 
we have the escaped convicts problem again.

I wonder: did McGonagall know where #4 Privet Drive was hen we 
presumably apparated their early thatdull, gray Tuesdfay morning? Or 
did she apparate to "Lily's sister?" Can you do that, apparating to 
someone you don't know? Perhaps having a close bond to that person 
(or even a magical one - the DEs do; couold the Black sisters?) 
makes a difference?

Maybe that's the secret - you can apparate to someone you have a 
certain type of bond with - forged (DE style), blood (Trixie and 
Cissy style), or something else (Sluggy and DD style, perhaps?). 
Maybe.

I'd lke to speculate on this more. I'll do some research on people 
Apparating to people. This is a fubn can of worms!

Thanks Carol!

~blitz (typing on her shiny new Macbook, which cost her more than 
she will ever admit, even under torture)