Stupid Question about the Vanishing Cabinet

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 141653

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zandi1717" <glzie at c...> wrote:
>
> Can someone please direct me to which book (and page number, if you 
> can) that this vanishing cabinet is mentioned?  
> 
> I guess I'm just not remembering it from my first read of HBP.
> 
> Thanks :)
> 
> Laura - too busy to start at SS and read to HBP to find out exactly 
> when this device was mentioned!

Geoff:
The two references I can recall are:

'"Malfoy just docked us all about fifty points," said Harry furiously 
as they watched several more stones fly upwards from the Gryffindor 
hour-glass.
"Yeah, Montague tried to do us during break," said George.
"What do you mean, 'tried'?" said Ron quickly.
He never managed to get all the words out" said Fred, "due to the 
fact that we forced him head-first into that Vanishing Cabinet on the 
first floor."
Hermione looked very shocked.
"But you'll get into terrible trouble!"
"Not until Montague reappears and that could take weeks..."'

(OOTP "Snape's Worst Memory" p.552 UK edition)

'"....so tell me, while we wait for your friends... how did you 
smuggle them in here? It seems to have taken you a long time to work 
out how to do it."
Malfoy looked as if he was fighting down the urge to shout, or to 
vomit. He gulped and took several breaths, glaring at Dumbledore, his 
wand pointing directly at the latter's heart. Then, as though he 
could not help himself, he said, "I had to mend that broken Vanishing 
Cabinet that no one's used for years. The one Montague got stuck in 
last year."
"Aaaah."
Dumbledore's sigh was half a groan. He closed his eyes for a moment.
"That was clever... there is a pair, I take it?"
"The other's in Borgin and Burkes," said Malfoy...'

(HBP "The Lightning-Struck Tower"  p. 548 UK edition)

Hope this helps.