I just got a question from a non-Harry Potter reader about the proper spelling of "disapparate." Upon running to my shelf to look it up, something struck me--that you never hear characters who are doing the action referring to it as "disapparition." They just refer to it as "apparition."
(Apparition is a sort of personal teleportation--you just kind of wink out and reappear wherever you wish to be. It's like "leaving"(disapparition) and "going,"(apparition) in a way.)
So, in order to "disapparate," you also have to be "apparating" somewhere else. Hence the reason no one doing this ever says it that way.
However.
People observing the action only see the disappearance. They're the ones who refer to "disapparition"--because that's what they observe!
yay for grammatical nuances of entirely fictional actions. I am such a nerd.
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