Whose Vanishing Cabinets?

[susanbones2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 149125

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Ceridwen" <ceridwennight at ...> 
wrote:
SNIPPED WITH VIGOR!
> Ceridwen wrote:
> There's one problem.  When Draco is talking to Borgin, HBP, US, p. 
> 125, Borgin asks Draco,  "Perhaps you'd like to take it now?"  
Draco 
> responds on p. 126 that he wouldn't, but that Borgin should not 
sell 
> it.  So it does not belong to Filch, unless he has authorized B&B 
to 
> act as his agent if a high enough offer came through.  Which I 
doubt, 
> it if is so useful to Filch to have it at B&B.
> 
> But, that brings up another question.  Dumbledore, in the passage 
you 
> cite, asked about there being another vanishing cabinet.  Why 
would 
> anyone want a single vanishing cabinet and not a pair?  Why would 
> someone want to stick their things into a cabinet that will 
disappear 
> them to Merlin-knows-where?  I can think of all sorts of ideas for 
a 
> pair to be bought by friends, lovers, and conspirators.  But 
nothing 
> is coming to mind for someone buying one alone when they won't 
know 
> where their stuff is coming out.  And, Dumbledore should have 
known 
> that, unless he assumed that the other cabinet was destroyed or 
> otherwise missing.
> 
> And, who did own the pair to begin with?
> 
> Ceridwen.

Hi there Cabinet fans!
As a maven of possibly useless HP trivia, I have been thinking for a 
while that Harry actually hid in the Vanishing Cabinet when he 
accidentally ended up in Borgin and Burkes' premises in COS. And 
when the trio are talking about what Draco wanted to be kept for him 
to the oily clerk, during their surveillance of said jr. DE, they 
mentioned they couldn't see what he was indicating because of a 
cabinet! I do believe JKR loves to hide in plain sight which should 
be a lesson to us, no doubt!
Jen D.
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