What Came First: Task or Cabinet?(was Re: ACID POPS and Teenager Draco...)

[Hagrid]

No: HPFGUIDX 157557

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at ...> wrote:
>
> > >>bboyminn: 
> > > > While I am not discrediting all the things that have 
> > > > been said so far, but let us not forget that Draco 
> > > > went to Voldemort with the Vanishing Cabinet Plan. 

> > 
> > Draco 
> > figures out that there are two connected Vanishing Cabinets; 
> > one inside Hogwarts, one outside. This occurs late in the 
> > previous school year or over the summer. I think it is a 
> > fair interpretation of canon, that the entire Draco plot 
> > grows from that piece of information. 
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> I think your time-line is wrong, Steve.  Draco tells Dumbledore 
that 
> he got the idea about the cabinet after hearing Montague's story. 

Aussie:

I don't know if Draco and Montegue are that friendly. Draco just 
heard the story (after montegue appartaed out of the cabinet and was 
found with his head stuck in a loo.)

On the tower, Draco said it was the "Cabinet that hadn't been used 
for years."

FYI, that cabinet was damaged in Chamber of Secrets book.

Filch takes Harry to his office, and Nearly-headless Nick gets 
Peeves to drop the Cabinet on the floor above Filch's office. Filch 
runs off and Harry sees the Kwikspells course in an envelope on 
Filch's desk, then Filch lets Harry go, embaressed. That is why 
Filch admitts a couple of chapters later to being a Squib.

aussie