a new? topic

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In a message dated 5/17/2006 9:15:33 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
cleverestwitchofherage at yahoo.com writes:

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?

Ley here:
Well, I believe that it was Peeves that broke the vanishing cabinet (sorry  
if I'm wrong, I'm just going off of memory after not reading the series for 
some  time). I also think it would be a great idea to have the 'final 
confrontation'  as you say @ Hogwarts. It would bring Harry back to the place that he 
decided to  leave early from (which, btw, I was very upset to hear that Harry 
would not be  continuing ANY of his magical education.).  
 
How is he going to learn any more spells and charms and jinxes and other  
things that could help him tremendously in his fight against LV and possibly his  
death eaters?  I don't think that Ron or Hermione will be with Harry when  he 
and LV do meet though, b/c they've never made it that far with him. 
 
i.e. SS- Ron leaves at the chess board, Hermione at the potion room while  
Harry goes on to meet Quirrel/ CoS- Hermione gets petrified, Ron is stuck at the 
 other side of a rock pile while Harry goes off to battle the basilisk and 
save  Ginny/ PoA- Ron is in the hospital wing with an injured leg and 
Hermione... just  sort of stands there while Harry conjures a partonus to save himself 
and Sirius/  GoF- obviously neither of them even get into the maze, let alone 
the graveyard/  OotP- Hermione got knocked out cold by a death eater, Ron was 
being attacked by  a brain while Harry went to the Atrium (w/ Dumbledore)/ and 
finally HBP-  Hermione and Ron were in the castle holding back death eaters as 
best they can  while Harry obtained a 'horcrux' with Dumbledore and chased 
Malfoy and Snape to  the gates.
 
 


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