Whose Vanishing Cabinets?

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 149128

 
> 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.

Potioncat:
But what the heck "is" a Vanishing Cabinet? I thought it was 
something like a trash compactor. But why would you need such an 
applinace if "evanesco" is so easy? It certainly isn't intended as a 
transportation device, even if it does work well as one.

Is it like a water closet? Which, come to think of it, if you don't 
know what is, sounds really strange...why would you put your water in 
a closet?

Or is it like vanishing cream? And if you put vanishing cream on 
strawberry shortcake, would the calories vanish?

> 
> Ginger:
 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.

Potioncat:
Good one Ginger!