Chapter Discussion - Chapter 6: Draco's Detour

[pippin_999]

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--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "meriaugust" <meriaugust at y...> wrote:

> 7. Harry has cried "Wolf!" on Malfoy too many times. Now that he is 
> right that Draco is planning something, no one believes him. How 
> could he have presented the evidence he discovered in this chapter 
> in order to be more persuasive? Or could he have? Who was in the 
> know enough to help Harry undermine Malfoy's plans? 

Pippin:
I think he *was* believed, and it threw the Order off the scent. Harry
told Mr. Weasley that he thought Draco was trying to fix some
Dark or dangerous object at the Malfoy home,  and although 
Mr. Weasley was dismissive with Harry, the Malfoy residence was
duly searched once again. 

Searches were instituted at Hogwarts also, attempting to find a
dark object. But there is nothing Dark about the vanishing cabinet,
and it had been at Hogwarts all along, so the searches didn't discover
it. If Dumbledore went into the Room of Requirement and said
"I need everything that's Dark or dangerous" the cabinet wouldn't
show up. It wouldn't even show up if he said, "I need to smuggle
people into the castle" because it was *broken.* 

Pippin