Potter's Pains: Wands and Broomsticks versus Apparition and Portkeys

I have been mulling over the whole wandless magic thing. One thing that has struck me is the effect portkeys and apparitions have on Harry. Portkeys are described for him as a hard tug behind his navel, not particularly a fun thought. And in the very heavy chapter "Lightning Struck Tower" we hear apparition described as a feeling of "horrible compression." These are both forms of wandless magic. Apparition is completely wandless and, while I imagine it does take a wand to make a portkey, it does not take a wand to use one. It hink these forms of magic, like potions, are allowable and can be used for good (maybe "neutral"), and that those such as Arthur and Molly Weasley, who are good, can use them without noticing the effects Harry notices because they are sort of the "hoi polloi" who are immersed in the mundane details of life - not meaning "mundane" in a negative sense - and sort of get used to the thing of the sensations so they might not even consciously recognize the feelings anymore. But Harry, so intimately tied to all the minute details of the battle between good and evil, is acutely sensitive to the very nature of any unique form of magic such as these. He acutely senses the "non-wand" nature." When I first thought of this, I thought, "well, can it be contrasted with any magic that Harry does get a particularly good feeling from, an area of magic that he really likes a lot?" And I thought, "well, he really enjoys flying ... but that is a wandless magic too" And THEN I thought, "but wait a minute, it does necessarily involve a broomstick!" So the symbolism sort of broadens here from "wand vs non-wand" to "magic based in a symbol vs magic untied to symbols." The broomstick is very much an emblem or symbol, an external object which the wizard must connect with in order to do the magic.