Vanishing Cabinet/Flint?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 133681

--- 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. 
>
> ...
> 
> ...  This seems overly elaborate to me and makes me wonder whether 
> this is a Flint.
> 
> Kelly L.

bboyminn:

Well, if it isn't a Flint then it is at least a  little flinty.

It's possible that Montague didn't Apparate to anywhere, he simply
apparated 'out'. 

In a sense he existed in no-man's-land, or in non-material-space.
Escaping from this twilight zone would be very difficult. So, it's
possible he summoned his last remaining strength and simply apparated
to anywhere; simply 'Out' of where he was. This is a somewhat
uncontrolled apparation and that may have resulted in his ending up
stuck in a toilet.

I think since we are dealing with a rather bizzare magical
circumstance, that the standard rules of apparating in Hogwarts, or
apparating in general, don't quite apply. Simply, unusual circumstance
cause unusual results.

I'm sure that doens't quite explain it, but if we assume there is a
reasonable explanation, then this one probably comes close.


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