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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