Apparate/Disapparate that is the question.

[madeleone]

OK, I know this question was posed awhile back and I thought I had a clear understanding of the meaning of and difference between Apparate and Disapparate.

My take was: Apparating was arriving, and Disapparating was departing.

So, if Severus appears in my living room (in my dreams): POP! Severus apparated into the middle of madeleone's living room.

But if he was leaving my house to return to Spinners End, he is departing so he Disapparated: Severus Disapparated from madeleone's house to Spinners End.

But in posting a chapter of a story, where I say of Hermione that: "She didn't seem determined to Disapparate off to murder Theodore Nott",  I was told: "change this to Apparate: Disapparating is arriving after Apparition)"

Disapparating is arriving? I thought it was just the opposite? So now I am totally confused again. Can someone set me straight?

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[mw48.livejournal.com]

I think the admin (sorry to admin if reading) is being ultra-pedantic in a way that makes very little sense.


I suppose what they're getting at is that (as you say), if he arrived in your living room, 'severus apparated into madeleone's living room' and then 'disapparated back to spinner's end' - to and fro, back and forth etc.

So - did Hermione apparate to the location she is in now? if so, she might then 'leave' or 'disapparate' to Theo Nott's...if it is the first 'journey' as such, then maybe it does make maybe the TINIEST bit more sense to say 'apparate'. But quite honestly, since you could presumably apparate to several different places in succcession, without that go and return to same place type of mentality, it shouldn't matter...

Just my 2c.

[madeleone]

Thanks for the input. I was just confused because I thought I had finally gotten it all figured out then this statement pretty much sounded like the complete opposite to me.

In answer to your question, no Hermione was already at her home in this scene.

It really doesn't make a huge difference to me.

But I've had other stories where I was told to use Disapparate rather than Apparate. So I try to get it right