flint? - vanishing cabinet - I don't think so

[dudemom_2000]

Message 28513 
--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "storm" <miss_megan at b...> 
wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> The questions about vanishing cabinet could be explained in this 
way:
> 
> Peeves broke a vanishing cabinet. This vanishing cabinet was put 
in the room of requirement.

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I agree with you there about Peeves breaking the cabinet. I wonder, 
though, if the cabinet wasn't already broken as far as what it could 
do. I find it hard to believe that such an item would be allowed in 
Hogwarts unless it were disabled. I suspect that the cabinet 
was "repaired" physically after it was broken but continued to be 
magically broken and put in storage/lumber room etc. where junk 
goes. 
> 
Storm:> vanishing cabinets come in pairs (or more, that is 
particular vanishing cabinets are linked to each other) there is 
another vanishing cabinet in Hogwarts. This is the pair of the 
broken one and the one the twins used.

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Somehow these cabinets got separated. I don't think they were 
particularly dark magic items, just junk furniture once they were 
disabled. Possibly once the cabinets became separated and lost, one 
or it appears that both were disabled to prevent use. (or maybe the 
magic involved got "old" or wore off)
 
Storm:> As the 'pair' was broken the twins' victim could not get out 
but was stuck in vanishing cabinet purgatory (for want of a better 
word). Think of it like the floo network, only instead of being able 
to get off at any fireplace only certain stops are permitted.
> 
> Vanishing cabinet purgatory is not 'in' hogwarts so the character 
could apparate out of it.

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Possibly you are right here OR we have found a weakness at Hogwarts! 
The plumbing has let in stuff before..........*cough*basilisk*cough*
> 
Storm:> Malfoy's 'fix' of the vanishing cabinet was to realign the 
one in the room of requirement to make the one at the shop 
it's 'pair'.

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I may be wrong here, but didn't Malfoy also tell Borgin to repair 
the cabinet in the shop and hold it for him? 

> storm, very tired and concrete, hoping the OOP reference doesn't 
refer to the broken vanishing cabinet because the theory will then 
fall to pieces.

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I believe the cabinet was in a junk room and the reason it appeared 
with all the other stuff in the Room of Requirement was that Malfoy 
needed to find the junk/discarded items and requested that, so the 
Room of Requirement gave it to him and he was able to find the 
cabinet. 

Dudemom_2000

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