Gilderoy Lockhart was a bestselling author. Taken individually, the plots he wrote were indeed wonderfully exciting. But after Vampires and Sailing, he was struck by Obliviate and admitted to St Mungo's, and never produced another work.
When she had read those "vampire" stories years ago, the wolf-like monster had reminded her of the Beast of Gévaudan. Gévaudan lay near Languedoc in southern France, while Baron Gilles de Rais's homeland was in Brittany. They were so far apart geographically, and the Beast of Gévaudan was not like a Zouwu, capable of Apparating from southern France to western France in an instant.
Kant said that human knowledge began with experience; our cognitive abilities were stimulated and set into action. Without the two "forms" of time and space, things could not present themselves to us.
The concept of transcending time and space was difficult to imagine, yet for wizards it was part of everyday life. Every student had to learn Apparition, allowing him or her to travel at any time to anywhere they wished to go. There were also Portkeys, which could even disregard distance and bring people from other countries to the Quidditch World Cup in Britain.
The haunted mirror on the fourth floor did not move people, or a particular space. It was like a railway switch, shifting at a certain time and in a certain order, connecting the passage behind the mirror to a particular space. Once that time had passed, the switch moved again. There was no returning by the original route; one had to wait until the next time the "switch" turned and connected the space where the adventurer was with Hogwarts—if the adventurer could wait that long.
In theory, he could have Apparated, but that place, like Hogwarts, had been protected by an Anti-Apparition Jinx. People all