Warrington and Apparating

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 181732

---  "l.anne120" <l.anne120 at ...> wrote:
>
> I Have a question ... Fred and George were responsible for
> putting the Slytherin Quidich captain Warrington into the 
> vanishing cabinet,....  Draco says to Dumbledore that 
> Warrington apparated OUT of the cabinet - ...
> 
> My question: as Hermoine ceaselessly reminds us, "you can't 
> apparate into or out of Hogwarts."  But Draco clearly states
> that Warrington "nearly died" by apparating out of the cabinet
> and into Hogwarts.  This seems like a clear violation of the 
> magical rules established by JKR.  So what gives?  ...
> 
> Thanks
> 
> DrKnow
>

bboyminn:

I think it happened because there is a lot of information we
don't know. For example, Hermione say you can't apparate into
or out of Hogwarts, but why? Is it impossible; is it an
impenetrable barrier? Or, is it simply because no one would
ever be willing to risk the consequences of doing so? And,
does apparating within Hogwarts bear the same consequences
as apparating from outside the grounds into Hogwarts?

We don't know.

Now we must ask, where was Warrington, when he was in the
cabinet? Was he literally in Hogwarts? Was he outside 
Hogwarts? Or was he in some sort of magical limbo never-
never-land? 

If he was in a magically indeterminate location, then perhaps
what he did, did not count as apparation into the school. 
Perhaps, he was both there and not there. And, ask yourself,
if Warrington paid a price for his apparation? He ended up
jambed into a toilet, and I think they mean literally in the
toilet, not just in the stall. It took him many many weeks,
possibly months, to recover. He came very close to dying. 
That doesn't sound like he got off scott-free to me. It sounds
like he paid a very high price for his actions, and I think
one of the things that saved him was that he was 'neither here
nor there'. He was neither in Hogwarts nor outside Hogwarts, 
and this magically indeterminate state saved him to some
extent. Though, considering what happened to him, it can
hardly be called 'saved'. 

Steve/bboyminn