Side apparating to Grimmauld Place (was Re: Conflicts, cheats and credibility

[Tim Regan]

Hi All,

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Dung pointed out:
>>> If Hermione was able to (effectively) side-along apparate Yaxley to
Grimmauld Place, into the Fidelius Charm, why couldn't Snape side-along with
a gang of DEs? Apparition doesn't require speaking, so the tongue-tying hex
wouldn't have stopped him. <<<

I tried out:
>>> How sure are we that one doesn't have to say where one is going when
apparating? [...] perhaps part of fixing one's mind is to speak the
destination? <<<

Dung rightly rubbished that:
>>> Not convinced, I'm afraid. [...] There's never been any mention of
having to speak when apparating, and I don't believe anyone ever has. <<< 

Kneasy brought in discussion around contradictions between this and other
cannon, but I want to hang in with this internal-to-Deathly-Hallows
inconsistency. A bit of a stream of consciousness post this, sorry ...

First off, would Snape have wanted to side-along apparate any Death Eaters
to Grimmauld Place? The obvious answer is "no, he's a goodie" but the
immediate reply is that the Death Eaters would ask him to side-apparate them
to the Order's head-quarters and he'd have to oblige or blow his cover. But
suppose that Voldemort and the Death Eaters do not know that Snape knows
where it is? Do we have any cannon that says they do? They may have expected
him to know, but given the gate keeper disaster that the Order experienced
with Lily and James everyone would expect them to be ultra cautious.

So there it is plausible that Snape would be under no pressure to
side-apparate Death Eaters to Grimmauld Place.

But that hasn't helped us, since the Order put the tongue-tying hex on Snape
to protect the secret. Why? They must have thought that the Snape would
side-apparate Death Eaters there, but what protection did they imagine the
tongue-tying hex brought them. Perhaps it's a belt-and-braces approach, i.e.
there are other jinxes to stop him apparating there. But there's no evidence
for that, quite the contrary - Snape has entered Grimmauld Place to collect
letters etc.

So after this ramble I'm still with Dung on this one. It does look like a
contradiction :-(

Cheers,

Dumbledad.


	
	
		
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