Fanfic / Unseen Perspective

Unseen Perspective is a Harry Potter AU fanfic written by TendraelUmbra, the author of Departure From The Diary and The Scrambled Sorting Saga. Like Departure from the Diary, this fanfic features a genderbent Voldemort, though one that is more heroic than the one from Departure.

Not all wars are black and white, as Harry learns when the second war with Voldemort seems to be painted in nothing but shades of grey. In which Harry is confused, Tonks is overwhelmed, Barty is a genius, Snape hates everyone, Dumbledore is trying his best, and Voldemort is having the time of her life.

The story is available here on FanFiction.Net and here on Archive of Our Own.

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This fanfic contains examples of:

• Adaptational Badass:
  • Overall, the Lady Voldemort in this fic is significantly more competent compared to the Lord Voldemort in canon. For one, she is already prepared to defeat the Ministry of Magic a full year earlier than her canon counterpart. As opposed to canon Voldemort who primarily relied on his wand in combat, this Voldemort doesn't need a wand as her mastery over magic is so complete that she actually prefers wandless magic most of the time. She is also more than a match for Dumbledore, able to put him on the back foot in a duel despite him having the Elder Wand, while she is both fighting wandless and deliberately holding back from killing him.
  • James and Lily Potter in this fic's backstory were a formidable Battle Couple who defeated Voldemort in three separate battles. It was why Voldemort was so certain Harry was the one prophesied to vanquish her. This is in total contrast to canon where while both of Harry's parents were skilled wizards, they were nowhere near Voldemort's level. In canon, neither James nor Lily could put up a fight against Voldemort when he came to kill them at Godric's Hollow since James forgot to grab his wand while Lily chose to sacrifice herself to save Harry's life. In this fic, it's revealed that the Potters not only lured Voldemort into a trap set at their cottage, but very nearly defeated their murderer before being overpowered. Lily's sacrifice for Harry was actually their back-up plan in case their trap to kill Voldemort failed.
• Adaptational Dumbass: James and Lily Potter get hit with this hard. In this fic, they made Peter Pettigrew their Secret Keeper despite knowing he was a spy for the Death Eaters. This was because the Potters deliberately lured Voldemort to their cottage as part of a half-baked plan to kill her. To further compound their stupidity, neither of them bothered to inform Dumbledore, Sirius, or the Order of the Phoenix of any of this, meaning it was just the two of them and a baby Harry against the most dangerous dark witch of all time. Suffice it to say that this was not the case in canon, where the Potters never intended for Voldemort for learn where they were hiding, let alone attempt to set up a trap for him without involving any outside help, and Peter's betrayal was something they genuinely did not see coming.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: Delphini from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child of all people makes her debut decades before she would have in that play, being introduced during Harry's fifth year in this fic.
• Adaptational Explanation: The fic offers a more solid reason for why people in-universe are afraid to utter Voldemort's name beyond the plain fear and superstition in canon. It's explained that during Voldemort's first few battles with Dumbledore in the First Wizarding World, Dumbledore would try to get under his opponent's skin by openly addressing her by her Embarrassing First Name. This tremendously backfires as it pissed off Voldemort enough to make her kill any nearby spectators and bystanders. Word would quickly spread of Voldemort killing anyone who heard her real name spoken aloud. But since the majority of people weren't aware Voldemort was even using an alias, they wrongly assumed that anyone who uttered "Voldemort" would be at risk of being brutally murdered, so they started calling her She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and You-Know-Who instead.
• Adaptational Friendship: Fenrir Greyback was, at best, a somewhat tolerated ally of Voldemort in canon with there being nothing to indicate the two had any sort of relationship beyond that. Here, he's been Voldemort's Childhood Friend since the latter was a student at Hogwarts, and Voldemort even tamed Greyback's werewolf form into being a personal Attack Animal.
• Adaptational Gender Identity: Rookwood is changed from a man to identifying as non-binary in this fic to the point where they casted a Perception Filter enchantment on themself that made their appearance automatically androgynous to any outside observers.
• Adaptational Intelligence: While canon Bellatrix could hardly be called stupid, the Bellatrix in this fic is practically a rocket scientist compared to her. She is characterized as basically a wizard Mad Scientist who literally wears a lab coat while carrying out experiments in her spare time, even keeping up to date on the latest discoveries in both magic and Muggle science.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Severus Snape, even moreso than he already was in canon. In this fic, it's established that prior to the famous Snape's worst memory scene, James and co. extended a sincere olive branch to Snape and Lily — and actually agreed to stop bullying Snape in exchange for Lily's help in creating the Marauder's Map — only for Snape to almost immediately resume hostilities by attempting (and failing) to sabotage James and Lily's budding romance. It's also revealed that Snape's worst memory wasn't the first time he called Lily a mudblood to her face, it was merely the first time he did it in the presence of other people. Also this version of Snape is a man fueled by pure vengeance who doesn't so much as care about making amends for causing Lily's death as he does enacting petty revenge against everyone he feels has wronged him.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: The Voldemort in this fic is generally shown to be far more forgiving and lenient with her followers than the Voldemort in canon would ever be with his. Unlike canon Voldemort, this one actually treats her lieutenants like genuine True Companions, is perfectly open to receiving constructive criticism from them in private, and it normally takes a lot for them to piss her off. Canon Voldemort by contrast is a full-blown Bad Boss with a Hair-Trigger Temper who'd probably Crucio his followers on the spot if they ever behaved as casually towards him as they do in this fic.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: In canon, there's nothing to indicate that Fenrir Greyback ever attended Hogwarts as a student, let alone personally know Voldemort prior to his werewolf pack allying with the Death Eaters during the First Wizarding War. This version of Greyback was not only Voldemort's classmate at Hogwarts, but arguably the first Death Eater as the two were close Childhood Friends to the point where Voldemort tamed Greyback's werewolf form and trained him as an Attack Animal.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Voldemort and Bellatrix share a close queerplatonic relationship in this fic as opposed to canon where Bellatrix was an Ignored Enamored Underling who Voldemort treated as just another loyal follower of his.
  • In canon Fenrir Grayback is treated as The Friend No One Likes among the Death Eaters' ranks, being valued solely for his leadership over the werewolves and not even being considered an official member. Here, he's not only part of the Death Eaters' inner circle, but is Voldemort's Childhood Friend with the two often calling each other by Affectionate Nicknames in private.
  • In canon, Barty Crouch Jr. was fanatically loyal to Voldemort because he viewed the Dark Lord as a Parental Substitute to replace his emotionally neglectful father. Since this fic's Voldemort was born female and took a young Barty under her wing as her apprentice in the past, he came to instead see her as an older Sexy Mentor to shamelessly pine after (much to the Dark Lady's mild chagrin).
• Adaptational Superpower Change:
  • Voldemort in canon primarily just uses his wand and the Killing Curse for every combat situation. The Voldemort in this fic prefers to fight using wandless magic and employs a variety of elemental magic from storm calling to summoning hellfire.
  • Delphini has her broomless flight from Cursed Child swapped out and replaced with being an empath.
• Adaptational Sympathy:
  • This version of Peter Pettigrew is shown to feel deeply guilty for betraying James and Lily to Voldemort even over a decade later. His guilt has left him so mentally fragile that he needs Rookwood to act as a personal therapist for him and Voldemort to pull an intervention.
  • Inverted with Regulus Black. His betrayal of Voldemort is treated far less sympathetically here since rather than defecting due to Voldemort's extreme mistreatment of Kreacher, Regulus did so because he became disillusioned with the Death Eaters when Bellatrix revealed Voldemort's true goal of anarchism while trying to recruit him to their inner circle. Regulus himself is shown to still be a true believer in pureblood supremacy and is an unapologetic bigot who looks down on Dumbledore and his allies as blood traitors.
• Adaptational Upbringing Change: This version of Voldemort was adopted by Dumbledore shortly after first meeting him and was raised as his daughter for the seven years that she attended Hogwarts, rather than remaining at Wool's Orphanage like in canon.
• Adaptational Villainy: In canon, Lyall Lupin was a heroic Ministry employee who specialized in studying Dark creatures and was a loving father towards his son Remus, who Lyall desperately tried to prevent from being killed by Fenrir Greyback when the latter broke into his home following a failed attempt by Lyall to expose Greyback's lycanthropic nature to the Ministry. While canon Lyall did make an extremely bigoted remark about werewolves, it was done in a Moment of Weakness caused by his frustration at being an Ignored Expert laughed out by his fellow Ministry officials for claiming Greyback was a werewolf. Unseen Perspective Flanderizes Lyall's canonical prejudice against werewolves, making him into a Corrupt Politician out to persecute Britain's entire werewolf community. In sharp contrast to his canon self, this Lyall was a Dirty Coward who tried to save his own skin by sacrificing his then-infant son against a werewolf attack by Greyback, who in this fic was specifically targeting Lyall for his anti-werewolf legislation and never intended to harm Remus.
• Adaptational Wimp: Umbridge is overall treated as far less of a threat by the story than she was in canon, due to not having the support of the Slytherins or Voldemort's followers in the Ministry this time around. Without them, she has no one to enforce her decrees at Hogwarts or cover up her atrocities, meaning she holds a lot less real authority and can't get away with as committing as much child abuse as she could in canon.
• Affectionate Nickname: Lady Voldemort and Fenrir Greyback use nicknames when talking to each other due to being close childhood friends in this fic. Voldemort calls Fenrir "Grey", while Fenrir calls her "Voldie".
• Age Lift: When Delphini was introduced in Cursed Child, she was in her early twenties. Here, she's introduced as being fourteen-years-old, just a year younger than Harry was during Order of the Phoenix.
• Antagonistic Offspring:
  • Theodore Nott actively hates his father for being an Abusive Parent and was already plotting to kill him when Voldemort decided that Nott Senior had outlived his usefulness to her cause.
  • It eventually turns out that this version of Voldemort was Dumbledore’s adopted daughter.
• Berserk Button: Like her male canon self, Voldemort hates being addressed by her given birth name. This fic's version has even more reason to hate her birth name given her Embarrassing First Name which she has done everything in her power to erase from living memory. The first few times Dumbledore ever addressed her using said first name during the First Wizarding War, Voldemort would absolutely lose it and kill anybody who heard it, successfully discouraging Dumbledore from ever trying that again.
• Broken Pedestal: When Snape discovers that Dumbledore never informed the Order of the Phoenix about Voldemort's true anarchist motives because Dumbledore refused to believe Voldemort was motivated by anything other than power and didn't want to "peddle the lies she tells those in her inner circle", he loses all faith in Hogwarts' headmaster. He accuses Dumbledore of having never taken the intel he provided over the years seriously and winds up holding Dumbledore at wandpoint in front of the rest of the Order.
• Cassandra Truth: When Snape first defected to Dumbledore and agreed to be his spy, he told Dumbledore everything he had learned during his time as Lady Voldemort's apprentice, including her true goal of permanently destroying Wizengamot. However, Dumbledore never passed this information on to the rest of the Order of the Phoenix because he refused to believe Voldemort was motivated by anything other than the selfish pursuit of power. We later learn that this is due to a memory spell casted on Dumbledore in the past by Voldemort, which makes it so that Voldemort's anarchist goals are literally unthinkable for him.
• Deal with the Devil: When Voldemort sees Slytherin's Locket in Harry's possession during one of their secret meetings over the summer before Harry's fifth year, she desperately asks Harry to hand it over in exchange for a favor. Unaware of the locket's nature as a Horcrux, Harry agrees in exchange for Sirius's name being cleared. Voldemort does keep to her end of the bargain by forcing Peter Pettigrew to turn himself in to the Ministry and confess his crimes, exonerating Sirius and getting Pettigrew sent to Azkaban. However, this later gets partially undone when Voldemort stages a mass breakout of the prison not long afterwards with Pettigrew being among the many escapees.
• Deconstruction Fic: The fic deconstructs Severus Snape's backstory by emphasizing how he's essentially just a petty, jealous guy who never got over his childhood crush choosing to marry his school rival over him. Instead of being motivated by his undying love for Lily, Snape has dedicated his entire life to revenge. His defection to Dumbledore is treated as a form of vengeance against Voldemort for "taking" Lily from him, rather than any remorse he feels for indirectly causing Lily's death. When Harry is shown Snape's memories, rather than developing a new respect for his potions professor like in canon, he winds up just feeling pity because he recognizes how Snape has wasted his own life through his spitefulness.
  Harry stared down at Snape. He tried to muster any sort of rage for the man, like he’d so often felt before, but the feeling wouldn’t come. All he felt was… pity. Snape was a man who’d dedicated his whole life to tearing other people down. Had he ever experienced any genuine happiness? Any sort of joy that didn’t come from destroying someone or something else? Snape wasn’t evil — he was just a sad, pathetic excuse for a human being.
• Dying Town: Snape’s hometown of Cokeworth has degraded into one come present day as even Voldemort finds the place colorless and dreary when she visits it to frame Snape after learning of his true allegiance to Dumbledore.
  A grimy place that had been bathed in the waste of the industrial revolution and abandoned when the market moved on, leaving it an empty husk. The town’s shopping centre was half abandoned, with only a few cheap take-out locations keeping it alive. A few convenience stores remained the only places to buy goods, furthering the area’s insavourability. The town was the dying breath of a bygone era, a lingering remnant that had long overstayed its welcome.
• The Empath: Delphini is an empath in this fic, being able to naturally sense the emotions of other people around her.
• Entertainingly Wrong:
  • After witnessing Voldemort's resurrection in the graveyard, Harry hears her mention how she was able to set up the Triwizard Tournament and arrange for all this with the help of "Barty". Since Harry doesn't yet know that Barty Crouch Jr. is still alive, he and everyone else assumes that Barty Crouch Senior must have been Voldemort's spy and the one who put Harry's name in the Goblet of Fire.
  • When Harry begins to perform dark magic that he had no prior knowledge of like the Banishing Cage spell and parselmagic, Dumbledore assumes that Harry must be unknowingly gleaning this information from Voldemort's mind using the mental connection Harry's scar has with her. In reality, Harry learned it directly from Voldemort herself in-person during their secret meetings.
• Even Evil Has Standards: It's revealed that when Snape plead with Voldemort to spare Lily's life at the expense of James and Harry's, even the Dark Lady found that callous and called him out over it.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Neither Voldemort nor Barty Crouch Jr. can accept that the Flamels actually destroyed the Philosopher's Stone like Dumbledore claimed to Harry because they find the idea of someone willingly throwing away immortality after achieving it to be unthinkable. Instead, the two assume that Nicholas and his wife merely faked their deaths and went into hiding under new identities with the Stone.
• Exact Words: Following Voldemort's resurrection at the start of the fic, she tells Harry she no longer has any desire to kill him because she considers the prophecy to have already been fulfilled since Harry did technically "vanquish" her as a baby.^note Of course, Voldemort hasn't read the full prophecy so she doesn't know about the "neither can live while the other survives" part.
  Voldemort: Luckily for me, vanquishing is not the same as killing. I wish I’d realised that earlier…
• Excellent Judge of Character: It takes exactly one conversation for Voldemort to deduce Snape's true loyalties. When she asks Snape to tell her more about Harry, he naturally tries to paint Harry as an arrogant spoiled bully. Since the real Harry is obviously nothing like this, Voldemort is immediately suspicious and considers this a major red flag. The way she sees it, Snape is either lying to her face because he's secretly a spy for Dumbledore, or he is actively projecting his hatred for James onto Harry because he can't contain his own biases for even one moment. Either way, Voldemort privately concludes Snape is too unreliable to be trusted with her real plans for Harry.
• Frame-Up: After Snape's true loyalties to Dumbledore are exposed, Voldemort is convinced by Harry not to kill him, so she settles for irreparably ruining his life instead. She uses Polyjuice Potion to disguise herself as Snape and frames him for a triple murder in his old Muggle hometown that involved three uses of the Imperius Curse, illegal magical objects, and an outlawed sacrificial ritual to remove Snape's Dark Mark brand from his skin. The end result is that Snape is now a wanted fugitive by both Muggle authorities and the Aurors.
• The Friend No One Likes: Lucius Malfoy is this among the Death Eaters even before the whole diary incident with Ginny during Harry's second year at Hogwarts came to light and caused him to lose favor with Voldemort. The primary reason Voldemort's inner circle values him is due to his wealth and political connections. The secondary reason is pure nepotism as Lucius's deceased father was the co-founder of the Death Eaters. Aside from that, he doesn't even seem to share Voldemort's true beliefs unlike every other inner circle member. Voldemort especially takes great pleasure in annoying Lucius as much as possible from constructing a gaudy throne room in Malfoy Manor to inciting a workers' strike among Lucius's house elves.
• Gender Flip: Voldemort in this fic was born female and is known as "Lady Voldemort" instead of "Lord Voldemort" like in canon.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: During the summer following his fourth year at Hogwarts, Harry is secretly taken to a Muggle Japanese restaurant where he eats sushi with Voldemort, Fenrir Greyback, and Delphini.
• Hazy-Feel Turn: Harry makes the choice to officially defect from the Order of the Phoenix and join Voldemort in Chapter 13, escaping from Grimmauld Place with her help.
• Homosexual Reproduction: In this fic's verse, there are magic rituals that allow same-sex partners to conceive a child through Blood Magic. For two women, the ritual is relatively safe and involves one partner donating blood while the other goes through the actual pregnancy process, but the child will always be born female due to the absence of Y chromosomes in both parents. As for two men, the ritual requires a third woman to act as a surrogate womb and there is a significant risk of miscarriage because of a 25% possibility the baby might be born with two Y chromosomes (since both biological parents in this case are men), which will always prove fatal due to the extreme genetic instability that causes. Delphini was created through one such ritual by Voldemort and Bellatrix.
• The Infiltration: After Harry defects from the Order of the Phoenix, Tonks convinces a reluctant Dumbledore to send her to replace Snape as the Order's spy inside the Death Eaters, both to gather intel on Voldemort's plans and to make sure that Harry is doing well. Voldemort is actually fully aware that Tonks is a spy, but she lets her join in order to Feed the Mole and because she's hoping to eventually influence Tonks into joining the Death Eaters for real.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia:
  • Rather than killing Cedric in the graveyard, Voldemort has Peter just Stun him and erases Cedric's memory of their encounter before sending him and Harry back to Hogwarts.
  • It turns out that this version of Voldemort was Dumbledore's adopted daughter, but Dumbledore can't remember because Voldemort accidentally erased that information from his mind during an altercation where she used an untested memory spell on him.
• Name One: Voldemort and Bellatrix get into this argument in Chapter 11 while debating how safe it is to be around Greyback's werewolf form which Voldemort claims to have tamed. When Voldemort asks Bellatrix to name one time Greyback caused collateral damage, Bellatrix immediately cites the incident where he bit Remus Lupin, which Voldemort insists doesn't count.
• Named by the Adaptation: Nott Sr. is given the first name Thaddeus in this fic.
• Out of Focus: Dolohov is the only member of Voldemort's inner circle who never speaks and is mostly just a background character like in canon.
• Position of Literal Power: It's mentioned by Voldemort that Dumbledore's position as the Headmaster of Hogwarts allows him to draw upon Hogwarts Castle's magic to increase his own power, though he can only do this while inside the school.
• Pretend Prejudice: Voldemort and most of her inner circle don't actually believe all that rhetoric of pureblood supremacy and blood purity that they espouse. They merely use that as a cover to recruit more followers and keep the wizarding world divided while they covertly carry out their true goal of permanently dissolving Wizengamot (which Voldemort perceives as a corrupt institution) and plunging wizarding Britain into a state of anarchism.
• Pushed at the Monster: How Remus was bitten by Fenrir in this fic. Fenrir and his pack of werewolves attacked Remus's father under Voldemort's orders in retaliation for trying to pass new anti-werewolf laws. According to Voldemort, Remus was literally thrown to the wolves by his own father in an attempt to save his own skin.
• Put on a Bus: Snape exits the story in Chapter 14. After Voldemort frames him for multiple murders and use of dark magic within a Muggle town, Snape flees to Grimmauld Place where he loses his temper and threatens Dumbledore during an argument, leading to him being knocked unconscious by Moody and locked up in the Black family's secret dungeons (which Sirius was surprised to learn actually existed) by Kreacher.
• Self-Serving Memory: When Snape (now a wanted man) flees back to Grimmauld Place in Chapter 14, he recounts everything that happened to him before and after his abduction by Voldemort to the Order of the Phoenix, including his discovery of Harry secretly meeting with the Dark Lady multiple times over the summer. When Snape gets to the part about Harry's Deal with the Devil to clear Sirius's name, he bitterly remarks how the Dark Lady seems willing to keep her word with Harry while implying she had broken a promise made to him in the past, alluding to how canonically Voldemort promised Snape he would try to spare Lily's life. Except that when Harry delved into Snape's memories with Voldemort's help earlier in Chapter 12, both Harry and the reader learn that this wasn't the case here — while Snape did ask for Voldemort's word she would spare Lily, Voldemort never actually made any such promises and even warned Severus that he was asking her for something she could not give.
• Ship Sinking:
  • When directly asked by Harry if she is in an intimate relationship with Bellatrix, Voldemort makes it abundantly clear that while she feels closer to Bellatrix than any other of her Death Eaters, their relationship is purely platonic. Even their daughter Delphini was created through a magical ritual intended as an experiment by Bellatrix to ensure that Slytherin's bloodline would still be passed down to future generations regardless of whatever happened to Voldemort, who prior to Delphini's birth was thought to be the last living Parseltongue.
  • Harry x Ginny thoroughly gets sunk in Chapter 16 where it's confirmed that this version of Ginny is a lesbian who only pined after Harry when she was younger because of a childish misunderstanding of how romance worked and being unaware that same-sex relationships were even an option.
• Simple Solution Won't Work: After Voldemort discovers Snape's true loyalties and makes him into a wanted fugitive, Dumbledore acknowledges that Severus is no longer of use to the Order of the Phoenix and debates what to do with him since he already knows too much about the Order's secrets. Moody suggests erasing Snape's memories of any sensitive information, citing how the Ministry does this to decommissioned Aurors all the time. Dumbledore responds by reminding Moody that Snape is a master of occlumency and likely has contingencies to protect his mind, meaning memory spells are highly unlikely to be effective on him.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Cedric Diggory doesn't die here as Voldemort has Peter use the Stunning Spell instead of the Killing Spell on the "spare".
  • Barty Crouch Jr. is never kissed by a Dementor like in the books because he never reveals his true identity while disguised as Mad Eye Moody nor does he try to pull Harry away to kill him after he returns to Hogwarts following Voldemort's resurrection. Instead, Barty just casts a spell on a captive Moody to make him believe he genuinely had been Harry's fourth year DADA teacher before covertly leaving Hogwarts and returning to Voldemort.
  • Instead of being hunted down and killed for his betrayal, Igor Karkaroff is welcomed back into Voldemort's inner circle once he reveals that the reason he sold out his fellow Death Eaters was to hide the existence of Delphini from Dumbledore and the Ministry.
• Take That!: The idea of Voldemort ever having sex as was implied in Cursed Child — which featured Voldemort and Bellatrix's illegitimate daughter as the twist villain, something widely regarded as Fanon Discontinuity due to how extremely OOC it is for Voldemort — is repeatedly dismissed in this fic. Harry gags in disgust when he first learns Voldemort has a secret daughter, due to wrongly assuming Delphini was naturally conceived. Voldemort herself is shown to be repulsed at the mere thought of copulating, and gets openly grossed out whenever one of her lieutenants jokingly offers to sleep with her.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Fenrir Greyback is an official full-time member of the Death Eaters here, whereas in canon he was only a somewhat tolerated peripheral ally.
• Useless Useful Spell: Voldemort is an Animagus in this fic. Amusingly, the animal form of the most dangerous Dark witch of all time is a harmless little garden snake. She almost never uses this ability for obvious reasons and few are even aware that she can do it.
• Villain Reveals the Secret: Voldemort is the one who prematurely reveals to Harry the existence of the prophecy and that he is one of her Horcruxes, both of which were secrets Dumbledore had kept from him, secrets which Harry canonically wasn't supposed to find out about until he was older.
• Would Hurt a Child: While this version of Voldemort is downright heroic when compared to her male canon counterpart, this is still the same woman who had no qualms attempting to murder an infant Harry in his crib or ordering Quirrell to kill an eleven-year-old Harry to get the Philosopher's Stone. Voldemort acknowledges this when she admits she doesn't do well with kids and finds interacting with teenagers to be far more tolerable.
• Wrong Context Magic: Voldemort has the unique ability to "Blink", which is a form of magical teleportation exclusive to this fic that breaks the canonical rules of Apparition as it is instant and silent (whereas Apparition almost always produces a popping noise), can be used for a Teleport Spam with no risk of splinching, and there are no magical charms or wards in existence which can block it. When Harry Blinks for the first time while trying to escape Snape in Chapter 12, he teleports while inside Hogwarts despite the castle's Anti-Disapparition Jinx still being up.

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