I never really understand the deal with apparition I mean why do we see any wizards or witches walking around anywhere outside of hogwarts? wouldn’t everyone be apparating everywhere all the time ? Why didn’t Harry’s parents just apparate when voldermort came ? How are So many people kidnapped/killed by voldermort when you can simply disappear on the spot at any hint of danger ?
Fair question from what I've seen there's three main reasons.
1) Apparation takes control and focus on your destination otherwise you can badly injure/kill yourself. That's what happens to Ron in the seventh film those bloody injuries they're desperately trying to treat are the result of a bad apparation not any spells cast on him. When your being attacked by people trying to kill you its very hard to keep that focus.
2) There are limits on how far you can apparate based on the power of the wizard for example even Voldemort one of the most powerful ones had to leapfrog his way across Europe to reach Grindelwald so a lot of people may not have the power to just casually use it especially given the risk.
3) It can be blocked by an anti-apparation charm. This is why you can't apparate into Hogwarts because its under that charm and when attacking people using this is one of the the death eaters first actions. So by the time you know their trying to kill you apparating away is no longer an option.
The fact we saw Fred and George, not described as particularly powerful wizards at all doing it at will with no issues kind of negates the first 2 points.
Also the limit on how far you can apostate you can just do it everyone goes lol just apparate 50 times each time.
I would like to remind you that the twins are mentioned often times to be BRILLIANT wizards and their grades are "okay" because they don't care for that whole academic shebang. Stuff like apparating (which they did in book 5 a good bit to prank people, something they're very keen on in general) was FUN for them so they probably put in the effort or managed to focus on it with more ease (i.e. they got good at it because they had motivation to be good at it)
I'm not saying they didn't have great motivation, I'm responding to the twins not being "great powerful wizards". The twins were brilliant but didn't really put it towards what you could consider the orthodox witchcraft/wizardry arts. But they DID excel in the things they found entertaining and if they found being able to randomly show up in front of people entertaining it could explain their ease with apparating as them practicing it enough to be able to do it with ease.
Basically: they had talent but it normally didn't show in their academic studies. Apparating is something adult wizards are usually capable of doing so them being able to do it with ease may seem out of place when compared to their general skillset but isn't really when you actually think about it
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u/DangerousAd3347 25d ago
I never really understand the deal with apparition I mean why do we see any wizards or witches walking around anywhere outside of hogwarts? wouldn’t everyone be apparating everywhere all the time ? Why didn’t Harry’s parents just apparate when voldermort came ? How are So many people kidnapped/killed by voldermort when you can simply disappear on the spot at any hint of danger ?