Apparition help please

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190700



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Liz Clark" <liz.treky at ...> wrote:

Taya
> Can someone please tell me where the descriptions of Apparition are 
> in the books. I'm only up to OotP ch15 so haven't reached these 
> descriptions yet! I'm thinking about the first time Harry apparated 
> (side-along with Dumbledore) in HBP, as I need the description of 
> what it feels like. 
 
Geoff:
'He (Dumbledore) came to an abrupt halt at the end of Privet Drive.

"You have not, of course, passed your Apparition test?" he said.

"No," said Harry. "I thought you had to be seventeen?"

"You do," said Dumbledore. "So you will need to hold on to my 
arm very tightly. My left, if you don't mind - as you have noticed, 
my wand arm is a little fragile at the moment." 

Harry gripped Dumbledore's proffered forearm.

"Very good," said Dumbledore. "Well, here we go."

Harry felt Dumbledore's arm twist away from him and redoubled  
his grip: the next thing he knew, everything went black; he was 
being pressed very hard from all directions; he could not breathe, 
there were iron bands tightening around his chest; his eyeballs 
were being forced back into his head; his eardrums were being 
pushed deeper into his skull and then -

He gulped great lungfuls of cold night air and opened his streaming 
eyes. He felt as though he had just been forced through a very 
tight rubber tube....

....Harry realised that he had just Apparated for the first time in 
his life.'
(HBP "Horace Slughorn" p,60 UK edition)