Caring about people

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 184574

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> 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? 


zanooda:

I also hope that Mike is all right, and that it's just the football
season got in the way :-). As for the plothole filler, I'm not sure it
will help, because, according to the book, Apparition doesn't seem to
be traceable. Lupin says that "it's impossible to track anyone who
Apparates, unless you grab hold of them as they disappear" (DH,p.205
Am.ed.)

As a matter of fact, I don't remember anyone saying that Apparition is
traceable. When Yaxley brags about his people infiltrating the
Department of Transport, he only says that if Harry Apparates from the
house, the DEs will know about it (p.6). He never says that they will
know Harry's destination.

When Moody explains the plan, he also doesn't say that Thicknesse and
the DEs can track Harry, if he Apparates, only that Thicknesse made it
"imprisonable offense" to Apparate from or to Privet Drive (p.46). I
don't know what this means exactly, but it seems obvious they can't
trace an apparating wizard, only to put a spell on a place (a house in
this case) which lets them know that someone *did* Apparate. 

Maybe the spell even shows *who* Apparated, otherwise how would they
know whom to "imprison" :-)? If Harry's apparition was traceable, I
believe Moody would have said so, instead of ranting about
"imprisonable offense" :-).