Tracing Apparition (WAS: Re: Caring about people)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 184568

> Carol: 
> On another note, I was thinking about the apparent inconsistency
> regarding Apparition being suddenly traceable and thought about Mike
> and his plothole filler. Where are you, Mike? Any ideas on this one,
> or any old posts you can point us to?

Zara:
Perhaps Apparition can be Traced. <g> So, Harry Apparating, or being 
Apparated, could be traced wherever and whenever he Apparated, but 
adult DEs from whom the Trace has long been removed, could not.

There is also the point that the DEs did not Apparate into 4 Privet 
Drive. Perhaps if the starting point is known to sufficient accuracy in 
advance, anyone can be traced when Apparating. But this would only 
prevent DEs from Apparating directly into 4 Privet Drive, something it 
is not clear to me they can do anyway until Harry turns 17. 

However, the DEs showed up on brooms some distance away from the house. 
Thus, the precondition I suggest, of advance notice and a known 
location, was not (and could not) be met.