Disapparating from the outskirts of Hogwarts

[Halgy]

Crouch might have been able to get in through the front gates, but Sirius wouldn't have, as I said previously.

Likewise, I think the Deatheaters might have come through the forest durring the Battle of Hogwarts. They were able to meet in there (when Harry confronted them) in any case.

[Karaley Dargen]

What I don't get about this is - why wouldn't Sirius be able to get in through the front gates? To the castle, he isn't a criminal. I doubt that Dumbledore did any specific "Anti-Sirius"-spells on the gates. I think it much more likely that he walked in through the front gates as a dog than him risking so much by apparating on the school grounds. I mean, he could even have squeezed through between two bars... And who says IF you can apparate in the forest, Sirius knew? Did he even have a wand? I don't remember exactly..
Anyway, I think it is possible that you can apparate in the forest, but definitely not right on the edge to the Hogwarts grounds. Somewhere deep inside, maybe.

[Halgy]

What I don't get about this is - why wouldn't Sirius be able to get in through the front gates? To the castle, he isn't a criminal.

What books are you reading? He was the Prisoner of Azkaban! It wasn't until the end of the book that Dumbledore accepts him as not being a criminal; until then, he thought, like the rest of the wizarding world, that Sirius was a mass-murderer.

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