Vanishing Cabinet/Flint?

[breegenie]

No: HPFGUIDX 133680

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Kelly L." <kethlenda at y...> wrote:
> 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.

I suspect this a Flint (did JKR forget about apparating in/out of Hogwarts?)
or 
Draco's lying to cover up the significance of the cabinet. 
or
the rumors about Montague ending up in a toilet are exaggerated
or 
apparating inside a "moving" object has wacky results...I highly doubt Montague was 
focused on a toilet in Hogwarts :)

Bree