Apparition

Last updated on July 29, 2023. This article is a short explanation of Apparition and how it works within Model Hogwarts. For more in depth information, you can check the Harry Potter Wikia's Article on the matter.

**Apparition** is an advanced magical skill that allows one to disappear from a spot and reappear instantly on another. While the word is often used for the general art of magically going from a place to another, it can also be used to specifically mean appearing somewhere, whereas disappearing from a place can be called **Disapparition**. When a wix apparates or disapparates, they can produce a sound that can go from a soft pop to a loud crack similar to a muggle vehicle backfiring.

Aside from being advanced, Apparition is also very uncomfortable, with a lot of people who experience it for the first time feeling nauseated and even throwing up, it also has distance and visualization limitations and, causing painful - although non-scarring - injuries during learning stages and when not done properly. The sum of these characteristics plus the requirement of a Ministry-issued License in order for it to be performed legally, make it so lots of wix prefer instead to use brooms, Portkeys or the Floo System.

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If your character is a Hogwarts student who is taking or took Apparition under Lorenzo Stronghart's professorship, all the information on this page is information they would most definitely have, so please read carefully.

## Side-Along Apparition

Side-Along Apparition is when a capable wix (or magical creature) takes someone along with them as they apparate. The person being brought along does not need to know how to apparate, but if they do, they can help the wix who originally apparated or even attempt to steal the lead of the apparition action.

For Side-Along Apparition, all involved parties must be touching.

## Splinching

Splinching is when, even after succesfully disapparating, a wix leaves behind a part of their body. It can go from harmless and almost unnonticeable experience like leaving behind an eyebrow hair, to very painfully leaving behind an entire limb.

Splinches are not fatal by essence, and in controlled environments like classes they will never have long-lasting damage as they can be quickly healed with the use of Essence of Dittany. The process is straight-forward with the limb simply being reattached to the body, and the application of Essence of Dittany making it so the skin is magically and instantly healed, leavingthe limb is perfectly in place and with no scars or any other sign that it had ever been detached from the body.

However, splinching while being alone can be fatal, as a severe splinch wound needs to be treated immediately, otherwise risking severe fluid loss, infections, and other afflictions that could lead to death, plus a splinched person won't always have the strength and resources to treat themselves. This is one of the reasons why a License is required in order to legally Apparate.

## Apparition Limitations

In order to succesfully Apparate, one must:

* have a clear visualization of the place they are going to;
* have some knowledge of where it is;
* respect a maximum distance from their starting point (which varies according to one's proficiency of the skill);
* be able to concentrate properly on the execution of their apparition attempt;
* know how to Apparate.

While it is not impossible to apparate without fulfilling all the aforementioned conditions (except for the last), the more extremely out of them one finds themselves, the more they risk undesired outcomes. Examples of such situations include but are not limited to: trying to apparate to a place that has been seen in photographies but has never been visited; trying to apparate to a place thas has been visited before but has since changed its geographical location, like a ship; trying to cover too far a distance in a single attempt, like going from London to Rome; trying to panickedly escape from a fight; during one's first attempts in classes before they know how to reliably do it and so on.

If one's lucky, breaking the "limits" of Apparition will merely make it so they Apparate to an unexpected coordinate, but in most cases, it will lead to a severe and very painful splinch.

## Apparition Prevention

The Anti-Apparition Charm and the Anti-Apparition Jinx are spells which, as their names suggests, prevents one from Apparating in or Disappariting from a place. They are warded in high security places such as Hogwarts, Azkaban and the Ministry of Magic or they can be used personally to protect one's home (or lair, who knows!).

Magical creatures such as House-Elves, Phoenixes and Diricawls are, however, immune to both spells and able to bypass them.

## License

In order to legally apparate, one must acquire an Apparition License given by the Ministry of Magic after succesfully passing the Apparition License Exam, which happens once every year in the Apparition Test Centre - Department of Magical Transportation, Level Six of the British Ministry of Magic. To attend, the examinee needs to have completed 17 years of age by the date of the exam, otherwise, they must wait for the next year, even if the exam day happens to be one day away from their birthday.

## Apparition

### Years

6-7

Apparition classes are taught as an elective course at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft for Sixth Years, with the option of being retaken at Seventh Year. For non-Hogwarts studens, classes can be legally acessed by hiring a private, Ministry-licensed instructor, though they are only allowed to wix who will turn of age by the end of the school year in which said classes will be held.

At Hogwarts, classes are since the 2033-2034 school year taught by Lorenzo Stronghart and they are not held in classrooms, being offered instead on the lawns, or in the Great Hall when it's too rainy or snowy to go outside.

Because it is a very dangerous art, Lorenzo does not tolerate baphoonery, disobedience and any general lack of attention during class, as he believes students must be fully concentrated in order to apparate properly. In his classes, there's always a team consisting of a few capable healers and sometimes professors that will rush to immediatelly patch up splinched students in the blink of an eye, with the usage of Essence of Dittany. Students are not allowed to touch another student's splinched limb, even if they are Apprentice Healers at St. Mungo's, even if they are the classroom assistants. That is only ever allowed to be done by the professional school healers.

Classes usually follow all the same format: students will be given hoops inside which they have to try to Apparate, as time passes, challenges will be added and the difficulty level will be increased. At the beginning of the school year, nothing much happens, until more and more students start to splinch as they gain grasp of how apparition should be done, until finally, less and less of it happens until no student (or close to that) is splinching anymore.

Apparition attemps start by spinning around on place with a wand in hand and focusing one's magic on making the wix disappear. A succesful Apparition attempt will not, however, see the spin concluded, as the person will disappear before the spin even starts, but until a succesful attempt occurs, that is how it is practiced.

At beginner level during their first classes, students are only allowed to Apparate on command, and usually do so altogether when Lorenzo tells them to. Second, third and following attempts follow the same rule, and all must wait for the "go" from the professor. As the students' ability progresses, Lorenzo gradually allows more and more freedom until they don't need to wait for his command at all.

#### The Three D's

Professor Stronghart's method of teaching Apparition goes through the Three D's: Destination, Determination and Deliberation.

One must have their mind focused and concentrated on their Destination, let themselves be filled and taken by all their Determination to magically move from one place to another, and finally, move not with haste, but with calm and Deliberation as they lead their body into nothingness.