Whose Vanishing Cabinets?

[quigonginger]

No: HPFGUIDX 149127

> Ceridwen:
> 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.

Ginger (who snipped big time):
I thought that the thing that Draco bought that he didn't want to 
take with him was the necklace he used to poison Katie (meant for DD, 
of course).  I thought the vanishing cabinet was a red herring that 
turned out to be a Holy Mackerel!  (Or something fishy).

Ceridwen: 
> 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.

Ginger:
Now *that* is a very good question.  One could ask the same of B&B.  
Why did they have a cabinet in their store if they didn't know where 
its mate was?  One would think they would have popped into it just to 
see where it went.  I'm sure as fully-trained wizards, and with Dark 
Art experience, they'd have been able to handle the situation should 
the other have been broken.  They'd have been able to apparate out 
anyway.  Montegue was just lucky he didn't splinch himself or end up 
at B&B's.  

Ginger, glad the Slyths got the full Monty in the end.