CoS chapters 6-10, post DH look - Apparation, Intent, and Guile

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 181232

---  "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> 
> Mike:
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> I think I found another FLINT, in Ch 10, that would be 
> critical to the DH action. Harry's in the hospital after 
> the de-boning. 
> 
> "Dobby must go!" breathed the elf, terrified. There was a 
> loud crack, and Harry's fist was suddenly clenched on thin
> air." - p.179
> 
> Harry was holding onto Dobby's arm. So, why didn't Harry 
> side-along apparate with Dobby? That's how Kreacher dragged
> Dung back. And that's how Dobby got all of them out of Malfoy
> Manor. Hmmm.
> 
> Mike
>

bboyminn:

Though you denied it, Intent does very much come into play, but
only at the instant Apparation (or its equivalent) is initiated.

When Dobby apparated, he intended to leave Harry behind. When
Kreacher fetched Dung, he intended to bring Dung with, and
more importantly, the apparation was initiated and executed
before Dung has time to initiate intent of his own. 

It's sort of like firing a gun, once the trigger is pulled, 
you can't change you mind about where it is going or alter its
destination nor can you unpull the trigger.

For Dung to have circumvented his capture by Kreacher, he would
have had to muster counter-intent at or just before the 
moment of initiation of the apparation event. 

In the case of Ron being partly splinched on his way to the
World Cup grounds, it is possible that at the moment they
arrived at the Black House, he was fixated on the Black House
and getting in, and that represented an intent counter to 
Hermione's intent to take them elsewhere. Or, at the moment
of arrival at the Black House, Ron may have sense the
beginning of a new apparation event, and said 'No!'. He
resisted the event, he fought the initiation of the event,
and that cause him to be splinched.

If you've got enough imagination and a dash of guile tempered
with a drop of hyper-rationalization, you can come up with an
answer for anything.

Hey...I'm just saying...

Steve/bboyminn