Montague and Apparating

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 181748

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:
>
> > > DrKnow wrote:
> > >
> > > Draco says to Dumbledore that Warrington apparated OUT of the
cabinet - ...
> > > 
> > > This seems like a clear violation of the magical rules
established by JKR.  So what gives?  ...
> > > 
> > 
> > bboyminn:
> > 
> > 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? 
> 
> Mike:
> I'd like to offer a different possibility besides Steve's, and I 
> think Steve's is a perfectly good explanation.
> 
> Magically travelling in and out of Hogwarts is certainly within 
those famous rules that Hermione and Snape kept quoting at us. One
could Floo in or out, Portkey, and the elves can use their form of
apparition in or out. So it seems wizard apparation is the only form
that is proscribed as unachievable.
> 
> Draco also told Dumbledore that Warrington hadn't passed his 
apparition test yet. This would mean that he wasn't doing that 
specific type of magical moving quite right. So maybe Warrington tried
to apparate but didn't quite perform the magic correctly, thereby
failing to trip whatever failsafe that prevents apparation. That is,
whatever magic that prevents apparation didn't recognize what
Warrington did as apparation, so he was able to "apparate" because he
didn't actually apparate. 
> 
> Warrington did an on-the-spot invention of a new magical travelling
spell. Of course since it landed him jambed into a commode, others are
unlikely to emulate this new magic even if they could get Warrington
to teach it to them, which I doubt he could.
> 
> Mike, thinking Warrington's invention deserves a new name, and 
> seeing as where he wound up, he nominates "Crapparating" <bg>
>
Carol responds:
First, as someone else has noted, it was Montague, not Warrington, who
was pushed into the Vanishing Cabinet by the Weasley Twins and ended
up somehow stuck in the toilet (I'm surprised that he didn't drown).
Warrington was no longer at Hogwarts, IIRC.

I don't think the problem was that Montague didn't have his Apparation
license yet. If that were the reason, he would surely have Splinched
rather than ending up in Hogwarts, but not in the place he intended.
(Possibly his inexperience was a factor; cf. Charlie Weasley landing
on some "old dear" doing her shopping), but inexperience wouldn't
enable Montague to defeat a protection against Apparation and
Disapparation that foiled much more experienced Wizards, including DEs
and Voldemort.

My explanation (which, of course, you can take or leave) is that
Montague attempted his Apparation when he was neither in nor out of
Hogwarts but in a kind of limbo, but since he was still inside the
Vanishing Cabinet, which was still inside Hogwarts, he ended up in the
same building as the cabinet. If the broken cabinet had been in Borgin
and Burkes rather than Hogwarts, he'd have ended up there, maybe stuck
headfirst in a display cabinet or something. In a sense, he was
Apparating already, or traveling in a manner similar to a Portkey,
except that the "Portkey" (the Cabinet) was defective. So, like
House-Elf Apparation, that mode of Apparation was not protected by the
anti-Apparation spell, any more than Portkeys are (or the repaired
cabinet that the DEs used to get into the RoR).

Carol, who admits that it's all confusing and wonders how JKR
explained it away (not that I buy most of her explanations)