What Came First: Task or Cabinet?

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>>Mike:
> <snip>
> Speculation: Draco learned while still at school else how would he 
> have known what "everyone" else thought of the story.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
But again, there's no canon. And we've seen that students visit 
each other over the summer. Why should we assume that Slytherins' 
don't go visiting? Especially their newly recovered Quidditch 
captain? Or for that matter, that they don't write letters?

Snow:

Not speaking for Mike of course but there is Canon: HBP pg. 587

Recount of Montague's story then:

"-- Everyone thought it was a really good story, but I was the only 
one who realized what it meant – even Borgin didn't know – I was the 
only one who realized there could be a way into Hogwarts through the 
cabinets if I fixed the broken one." 

This shows us that `everyone' heard the story from Montague of how he 
was in a type of limbo between two places. This would then lend us to 
the opinion that Draco became aware of the cabinets at the end of 
last school year for an all-inclusive `everyone' heard the story. 

Snow