Vanishing Cabinet/Flint?

Kelly L. kethlenda at yahoo.com
Wed Jul 20 20:14:08 UTC 2005


No: HPFGUIDX 133580

OK, so could someone make some sense of this for me?

When Draco is explaining the use of the Vanishing Cabinet in HBP, he 
talks about how his classmate Montague got stuck in it, heard 
snatches of sounds from both Hogwarts and Borgin and Burke's, and 
eventually had to Apparate to get out of the cabinet, nearly dying in 
the process. (Though whether his death would have resulted from 
incompetent Apparition or just from starving in the cabinet, I'm not 
sure.)

Now, as Hermione well knows, you can't apparate in Hogwarts except 
during the one scene where they relaxed that rule so that the 
students could practice in the Great Hall.  So clearly Montague must 
have Apparated out into Borgin and Burkes.

But I went back and checked this plot point on OotP, because I was 
curious about whether Rowling had foreshadowed it without my 
noticing.  According to OotP, Montague was pushed into the cabinet by 
Fred and George, and turned up several days later stuck in a toilet 
at Hogwarts.

Am I to believe that Montague Apparated into the shop, and then in 
his near-dead state went back to Hogwarts, hid in a toilet, and 
pretended not to remember how he got there--just to conceal the 
passage to Borgin's?  This seems overly elaborate to me and makes me 
wonder whether this is a Flint.

Kelly L.







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