Chapter 224: Dumbledore's Transfiguration Approach
October twenty-first. Early morning. Hogsmeade.
Regulus followed the cobblestone path to the edge of the castle grounds, stopping on a low hill.
Silence surrounded him, broken only by the occasional gust of wind and his own footsteps.
He stood there for a moment, watching the castle.
He turned. Time to go.
His father's letter had included the address. Provence, France. The Luberon Mountains. Wisteria Manor.
The map had been crude, but those few lines had already resolved into a precise location in his mind.
Apparition could get him there, but not in one jump.
Hogwarts to Provence was roughly a thousand kilometers in a straight line. For an average wizard, Apparition maxed out at a few hundred. Beyond that, targeting grew unreliable, the space between grew unstable, and one wrong calculation could leave you stranded or splinched.