a new? topic

[cleverestwitchofherage]

No: HPFGUIDX 152400

Okay, here goes. I haven't haven't had time to read everything 
written since HBP came out, so if this is not a new topic, I 
apologize.

Does anybody else wonder when or how the Vanishing Cabinet broke? I 
find the fact that the two cabinets form a secret passage from B&B 
to Hogwarts highly interesting and perhaps significant. Lord V once 
worked at B&B, after all. Was the cabinet broken then? If not, might 
he have used it to sneak into Hogwarts? What, if any, connection 
might there be between his attempt to gain a teaching position at 
Hogwarts and the fact that at one time a passage, apparently unknown 
to Dumbledore, existed between the two cabinets? 

I also wonder why Voldemort had his Death Eaters positioned in 
Hogsmeade when he went to ask Dumbledore for the teaching job. 

I realize that I might seem to be bringing up more than one topic 
here, but I think they are all connected. I also suspect that the 
last horcrux is at Hogwarts and that the final confrontation will 
take place there. Harry will, therefore, have to return to school.

Any thoughts?

Cleverwitch