HoG - Alternate Theory

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 183992

I've also been following this thread and it confuses me a bit. I tend 
to go for the simplest answers (or what seems to be the simplest to 
me.)

At some point after Harry sees the activities at B&B, he lets Ron and 
Hermione know about it. Ron, who is raised in a wizarding family 
understands exactly what Harry is talking about.

He may have actually seen pictures of a Hand of Glory. We are told 
that it's a dark artifact, not that it's a one of a kind artifact. If 
it's not one of a kind (there may not be hundreds, but more than a 
few), then it's probable that wizarding families, especially ones 
with lots of mischevious boys are going to find out about these types 
of items. 

So having Ron know what the HoG is, doesn't seem like a stretch to me.

The easiest way to have gotten it into the castle would have been 
through the cabinets. After all if the HoG was still at B&B it would 
have been no effort to bring it through. That's probably how the 
darkness powder also got into the castle.

Jack-A-Roe

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> I've only been casually following the Hand of Glory (HoG) thread,
> but some thing occurred to me. How did Draco know that the 
> Vanishing Cabinet was actually working? Who would want to step
> into it without some proof that it was safe?
> 
> So, how about DE enter B&B's shop and send something through,
> something useful like the Hand of Glory? 
> 
> It goes through the cabinet proving its function, Draco finds it,
> it by-passes security, it resolves everything except how Ron 
> knew about Draco having it. Unless, Ron simply remembered Draco's
> /interest/ in the HoG and assumed that he must have had it to evade
> the Peruvian Darkness Powder. 
> 
> Hey...it was just a thought.
> 
> Steve/bluewizard
>