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{{Object infobox
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|name=Hogwarts to Borgin and Burkes Vanishing Cabinet pair
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|name = Hogwarts to Borgin and Burkes Vanishing Cabinet pair
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|made = Pre [[1981]]
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|usage = Together act as passage way<ref name="HBP27"/>
|owners=*[[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]]
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}}{{Dialogue a-b-a-b-a|Dumbledore|You're not alone...there are [[Death Eaters|others]]...how?|Draco|The Vanishing Cabinet in the [[Room of Requirement]]. I've been mending it.|Let me guess: it has a sister, a twin.|In [[Borgin and Burkes]]. They form a passage.|Ingenious.|[[Draco Malfoy]] and [[Albus Dumbledore]]|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)}}A '''pair of [[Vanishing Cabinet]]s''' formed a passage between [[Hogwarts Castle]], the location of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts School]] and [[Borgin and Burkes]], a dark magic shop in [[Knockturn Alley]]. The cabinets allowed objects placed in one cabinet to appear in the other. The passage was successfully used to transport several [[Death Eaters]] from Borgin and Burkes into Hogwarts School, hence commencing the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]].
 
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{{Dialogue a-b-a-b|Albus Dumbledore|So tell me, while we wait for your friends ... how did you smuggle them in here? It seems to have taken you a long time to work out how to do it.|Draco Malfoy|I had to mend that broken Vanishing Cabinet that no one's used for years. The one Montague got lost in last year.|Aaaah. That was clever.... There is a pair, I take it?|In [[Borgin and Burkes]], and they make a kind of passage between them.|A discussion regarding Vanishing Cabinets|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
 
A '''pair of [[Vanishing Cabinet]]s''' formed a passage between [[Hogwarts Castle]] -- the location of [[Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts School]] -- and Borgin and Burkes, a dark magic antique shop in [[Knockturn Alley]]. The cabinets allowed objects placed in one cabinet to appear in the other. The passage was successfully used to transport several [[Death Eaters]] from Borgin and Burkes into Hogwarts School, hence commencing the [[Battle of the Astronomy Tower]].<ref name="HBP27"/>
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==Description==
 
==Description==
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The two objects were large black cabinets, though the one in Hogwarts was both black and gold in colour. The cabinets were said to be highly valuable.<ref name="COS8">{{COS|B|8}}</ref>
==its were hermine gives ron a blowjob==
 
==and ginny gives harry a handjob and recieves anal==
 
==.==
 
===As an Entryway to Hogwarts===
 
 
One of the things that is stressed over and over is that Hogwarts is "[[Unplottability|unplottable]]", that it cannot be put on a map, and that wizards and witches cannot apparate to or within it. Additionally, both in Harry's third and sixth year it is mentioned that there are spells preventing entrance via any means save the gates, which are guarded by [[Dementors]] in Harry's third year, and by locks that can be opened only by professors in his sixth. Much of the action in Harry's third year involves the secret ways in and out of the castle, and many got the impression that all such passageways are known. The Vanishing Cabinets are a way around this protection that has not as yet been guarded against.
 
   
 
==History==
 
==History==
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It is unknown when the Vanishing Cabinet at Hogwarts first came to the school or who brought it in, but it was already stored in the [[Room of Requirement]] by the [[1890–1891 school year]], when [[Phineas Nigellus Black]] ([[Slytherin]] and member of the [[Pure-blood supremacy|pure-blood supremacist]] [[House of Black]]) was [[Hogwarts Headteacher|Headmaster]].<ref name="HL">{{HL}} {{See video|url=https://youtu.be/noQOcxZPXCo?t=396}}</ref> It is also unknown how or when the other Vanishing Cabinet came to [[Borgin and Burkes]].
The Vanishing Cabinet was obviously not known for the danger it represented, as neither the headmaster nor the caretaker removed it from the premises. Though they knew it was a Vanishing Cabinet, no one seemed to know it was linked to a second cabinet in the shop of [[Borgin and Burkes]].
 
===1992-1993 school year===
 
When Harry accidentally arrived to [[Borgin and Burkes]] via [[Floo Powder]], he hid inside the Cabinet without fully closing the door, to avoid [[Borgin]], [[Lucius Malfoy|Lucius]] and [[Draco Malfoy]]. Draco nearly opened the door but was beckoned to leave with his father before that could be accomplished.
 
   
 
At some point, it was taken out of the Room of Requirement for unknown reasons. It was obviously not known for the danger it represented, as neither any the subsequent headmasters nor any of the subsequent [[Hogwarts caretaker|caretakers]] removed it from the premises. Though they knew it was a Vanishing Cabinet, no one seemed to know it was linked to a second cabinet at Borgin and Burkes in the [[Dark Arts|Dark Magic]] shopping district [[Knockturn Alley]].<ref name="HBP27"/>
[[Peeves]] damaged the Cabinet at Hogwarts in [[1992]] when he was persuaded by [[Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Nearly Headless Nick]] to drop it in a classroom right above [[Argus Filch|Filch]]'s office to get Harry out of trouble with Filch.
 
   
===1995-1996 school year===
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===1992–1993 school year===
 
When Harry accidentally arrived to [[Borgin and Burkes]] via [[Floo Powder]], he hid inside the Cabinet without fully closing the door, to avoid [[Borgin]], [[Lucius Malfoy|Lucius]], and [[Draco Malfoy]]. Draco nearly opened the door but was beckoned to leave with his father before that could be accomplished.<ref name="COS4">{{COS|B|4}}</ref>
   
 
[[Peeves]] damaged the Cabinet at Hogwarts in [[1992]] when he was persuaded by [[Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington|Nearly Headless Nick]] to drop it in a classroom right above [[Argus Filch|Filch]]'s office to get Harry out of trouble with Filch.<ref name="COS8"/>
In [[1996]], [[Fred and George Weasley]] shoved [[Graham Montague]] headfirst into the Cabinet on the first floor of Hogwarts when he tried to take points away from them. Montague eventually escaped (by [[Apparition|Apparating]]) and was found in a toilet's u-bend by Draco Malfoy, who summoned [[Severus Snape|Professor Snape]] for help. Montague nearly died in his escape attempt, and revealed the previously unknown powers of the Cabinets to Draco.
 
   
===1996-1997 school year===
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===1995–1996 school year===
 
In [[1996]], [[Fred Weasley|Fred]] and [[George Weasley]] shoved [[Graham Montague]] headfirst into the Cabinet on the first floor of Hogwarts when he tried to take points away from them. Montague eventually escaped (by [[Apparition|Apparating]]) and was found in a toilet's u-bend by Draco Malfoy, who summoned [[Severus Snape|Professor Snape]] for help. Montague nearly died in his escape attempt,<ref name="OOTP28">{{OOTP|B|28}}</ref> and revealed the previously unknown powers of the Cabinets to Draco.<ref name="HBP27">{{HBP|B|27}}</ref>
[[File:Vanishing_cabinet_and_malfoy.jpg|thumb|left|266px|[[Draco Malfoy]] using the Vanishing Cabinet]]
 
   
 
===1996–1997 school year===
{{Dialogue a-b-a-b-a|Dumbledore|...so tell me, while we wait for your friends...how did you smuggle them in here? It seems it has taken you a long time to work out how to do it.|Draco|I had to mend that broken Vanishing Cabinet that no one's used for years. The one Montague got lost in last year.|Aaaah. That was clever...there is a pair, I take it?|The other's in Borgin and Burkes and they make a kind of passage between them. Montague told me that when he was stuck in the Hogwarts one, he was trapped in limbo but sometimes he could hear what was going on at school, and sometimes what was going on in the shop, as if the Cabinet was traveling between them ''[...]'' I was the only one who realised what it meant — even [[Borgin]] didn't know — I was the one who realised there could be way into Hogwarts through the Cabinets if I fixed the broken one.|Very good. So the Death Eaters were able to pass from Borgin and Burkes into the school to help you...a clever plan, a very clever plan...and, as you say, right under my nose...|Draco talking to Dumbledore atop the [[Astronomy Tower]].|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
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{{Dialogue a-b-a-b|Dumbledore| ''[...]'' so tell me, while we wait for your friends... how did you smuggle them in here? It seems it has taken you a long time to work out how to do it.|Draco|I had to mend that broken Vanishing Cabinet that no one's used for years. The one Montague got lost in last year.|Aaaah. That was clever... there is a pair, I take it?|The other's in Borgin and Burkes and they make a kind of passage between them.|Draco talking to Dumbledore atop the [[Astronomy Tower]]|Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince}}
 
[[File:Vanishing cabinet and malfoy.jpg|250px|thumb|left|[[Draco Malfoy]] using the Vanishing Cabinet]]
 
Draco used what he learned about the Cabinet's powers to his advantage. When [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] commanded Draco to [[Plot to assassinate Albus Dumbledore|assassinate]] [[Albus Dumbledore]], Draco decided to use the Cabinets to allow Death Eaters into the castle to assist him. The Hogwarts Vanishing Cabinet was later moved to the [[Room of Requirement]], where Draco would spend the entire school year in repairing, after coaxing [[Borgin]] with death threats for instructions and assistance; he also ordered Borgin not to sell the counterpart Cabinet in store, and just keep it safe.<ref name="HBP6">{{HBP|B|6}}</ref><ref name="HBP27"/>
   
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Repairing it seemed to be very difficult and taxing on Draco's behalf, as he became increasingly neglectful in his schoolwork, duties, and activities, with him even losing confidence in success from time to time in that he attempted other crude methods of assassination that failed. Working off of Borgin's instructions instead of allowing the proprietor see the damage first hand also hampered the progress, as Borgin mentioned earlier. However, he eventually succeeds in [[1997]], and allowed a group of Death Eaters — [[Alecto Carrow|Alecto]] and [[Amycus Carrow]], [[Corban Yaxley]], [[Thorfinn Rowle]], [[Gibbon]], and [[Fenrir Greyback]] — to enter Hogwarts from the Borgin & Burkes Vanishing Cabinet, in order to accomplish his mission.<ref name="HBP27"/> The fact that the cabinets were able to grant the Death Eaters entrance into the castle despite the otherwise impenetrable defences horrified the wizarding world at large, as this meant that there was no longer anywhere safe from Voldemort.
[[File:Bellatrix-harry-potter-9360739-250-150.gif|frame|Draco's invited group of Death Eaters emerging from the Vanishing Cabinet.]]
 
   
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===1997–1998 school year===
Draco used what he learned about the Cabinet's powers to his advantage. When [[Tom Riddle|Lord Voldemort]] commanded Draco to [[Plot to assassinate Albus Dumbledore|assassinate]] [[Albus Dumbledore]], Draco decided to use the Cabinets to allow Death Eaters into the castle to assist him. The Hogwarts Vanishing Cabinet was later moved to the [[Room of Requirement]], where Draco would spend the entire school year in repairing, after coaxing [[Borgin]] with death threats for instructions and assistance; he also ordered Borgin not to sell the counterpart Cabinet in store, and just keep it safe. Repairing it seems to be very difficult and taxing on Draco's behalf, as he became increasingly neglectful in his schoolwork, duties and activities, with him even losing confidence in success from time to time in that he attempted other crude methods of assassination that failed. However, he eventually succeeds in [[1997]], and allowed a group of Death Eaters — [[Alecto and Amycus Carrow]], [[Yaxley]], [[Thorfinn Rowle]], [[Gibbon]], [[Bellatrix Lestrange]], and [[Fenrir Greyback]] — to enter Hogwarts from the Borgin & Burkes Vanishing Cabinet, in order to accomplish his mission.
 
 
During this school year, it is unlikely that the Death Eaters used the pair of cabinets to enter the school because it was already under their control. During the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] in [[1998]], when [[Vincent Crabbe]] released [[Fiendfyre]] in the Room of Requirement,<ref name="DH31">{{DH|B|31}}</ref> it was likely the Vanishing Cabinet was destroyed, along with many other artefacts hidden there. However, since [[Lottie Turner]] and [[Unidentified Muggle-born Hogwarts student|her friend]] were able to retrieve some furniture that had been placed there since the [[1820]]s about ten years after Crabbe set the room on fire, the Cabinet itself may have been unharmed or restored.<ref name="MA CBP">{{MA}} - "Chamber behind the portrait" event (see [https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1CP4y1z74y this video])</ref>
   
===1997-1998 school year===
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==Behind the scenes==
 
*One of the things that is often noted is that Hogwarts is "[[Unplottability|unplottable]]", that it cannot be put on a map, and that wizards and witches cannot apparate to or within it. Additionally, both in Harry's third and sixth year it is mentioned that there are spells preventing entrance via any means save the gates, which are guarded by [[Dementor]]s in Harry's third year, and by locks that can be opened only by professors in his sixth. Much of the action in Harry's third year involves the secret ways in and out of the castle, and many got the impression that all such passageways are known and have been given added protection since.
 
 
*In {{HBP|FA}}, when Draco tested the progress of repairing the broken Cabinet, he placed an apple and later a bird into it; both times, the Cabinet was not fully repaired, when the said object was sent to the Cabinet at Borgin and Burkes and back, the apple was missing a moderate chunk, while the bird died. Also, he required the [[incantation]]/[[password]], ''[[Harmonia Nectere Passus]]'', to activate the Cabinet's powers.
During this school year, it is unlikely that the Death Eaters used the pair of cabinets to enter the school because it was already under their control. During the [[Battle of Hogwarts]] in [[1998]], when [[Vincent Crabbe]] released [[Fiendfyre]] in the Room of Requirement, it was likely the Vanishing Cabinet was destroyed, along with many other artefacts hidden there.
 
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*The Vanishing Cabinet is replaced by a [[Crushing Cabinet]] in the [[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)|film]] and [[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)|video game adaptations]] of {{COS}}, as the Borgin and Burkes cabinet had yet to be identified as a Vanishing Cabinet at that time.
 
==Trivia==
 
* In the [[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|film version]] of ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]'', when Draco tested the progress of repairing the broken Cabinet, he placed an apple and later a bird into it; both times, the Cabinet was not fully repaired, when the said object was sent to the Cabinet at Borgin and Burkes and back, the apple was missing a moderate chunk, while the bird died.
 
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
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*{{COS}} {{1st}}
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*{{OOTP}} {{Mention}} {{1st ID}}
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*{{HBP}}
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==Notes and references==
*''[[Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]'' {{1st Mention}}
 
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*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]''
 
*''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2]]'' {{Flashback}}
 
*''[[LEGO Harry Potter: Building the Magical World]]''
 
*''[[LEGO Harry Potter|Harry Potter LEGO Sets]]''
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 05:09, 21 January 2024

Albus Dumbledore: "So tell me, while we wait for your friends ... how did you smuggle them in here? It seems to have taken you a long time to work out how to do it."
Draco Malfoy: "I had to mend that broken Vanishing Cabinet that no one's used for years. The one Montague got lost in last year."
Albus Dumbledore: "Aaaah. That was clever.... There is a pair, I take it?"
Draco Malfoy: "In Borgin and Burkes, and they make a kind of passage between them."
— A discussion regarding Vanishing Cabinets[src]

A pair of Vanishing Cabinets formed a passage between Hogwarts Castle -- the location of Hogwarts School -- and Borgin and Burkes, a dark magic antique shop in Knockturn Alley. The cabinets allowed objects placed in one cabinet to appear in the other. The passage was successfully used to transport several Death Eaters from Borgin and Burkes into Hogwarts School, hence commencing the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.[1]

Description

The two objects were large black cabinets, though the one in Hogwarts was both black and gold in colour. The cabinets were said to be highly valuable.[2]

History

It is unknown when the Vanishing Cabinet at Hogwarts first came to the school or who brought it in, but it was already stored in the Room of Requirement by the 1890–1891 school year, when Phineas Nigellus Black (Slytherin and member of the pure-blood supremacist House of Black) was Headmaster.[3] It is also unknown how or when the other Vanishing Cabinet came to Borgin and Burkes.

At some point, it was taken out of the Room of Requirement for unknown reasons. It was obviously not known for the danger it represented, as neither any the subsequent headmasters nor any of the subsequent caretakers removed it from the premises. Though they knew it was a Vanishing Cabinet, no one seemed to know it was linked to a second cabinet at Borgin and Burkes in the Dark Magic shopping district Knockturn Alley.[1]

1992–1993 school year

When Harry accidentally arrived to Borgin and Burkes via Floo Powder, he hid inside the Cabinet without fully closing the door, to avoid Borgin, Lucius, and Draco Malfoy. Draco nearly opened the door but was beckoned to leave with his father before that could be accomplished.[4]

Peeves damaged the Cabinet at Hogwarts in 1992 when he was persuaded by Nearly Headless Nick to drop it in a classroom right above Filch's office to get Harry out of trouble with Filch.[2]

1995–1996 school year

In 1996, Fred and George Weasley shoved Graham Montague headfirst into the Cabinet on the first floor of Hogwarts when he tried to take points away from them. Montague eventually escaped (by Apparating) and was found in a toilet's u-bend by Draco Malfoy, who summoned Professor Snape for help. Montague nearly died in his escape attempt,[5] and revealed the previously unknown powers of the Cabinets to Draco.[1]

1996–1997 school year

Dumbledore: " [...] so tell me, while we wait for your friends... how did you smuggle them in here? It seems it has taken you a long time to work out how to do it."
Draco: "I had to mend that broken Vanishing Cabinet that no one's used for years. The one Montague got lost in last year."
Dumbledore: "Aaaah. That was clever... there is a pair, I take it?"
Draco: "The other's in Borgin and Burkes and they make a kind of passage between them."
— Draco talking to Dumbledore atop the Astronomy Tower[src]
Vanishing cabinet and malfoy

Draco Malfoy using the Vanishing Cabinet

Draco used what he learned about the Cabinet's powers to his advantage. When Lord Voldemort commanded Draco to assassinate Albus Dumbledore, Draco decided to use the Cabinets to allow Death Eaters into the castle to assist him. The Hogwarts Vanishing Cabinet was later moved to the Room of Requirement, where Draco would spend the entire school year in repairing, after coaxing Borgin with death threats for instructions and assistance; he also ordered Borgin not to sell the counterpart Cabinet in store, and just keep it safe.[6][1]

Repairing it seemed to be very difficult and taxing on Draco's behalf, as he became increasingly neglectful in his schoolwork, duties, and activities, with him even losing confidence in success from time to time in that he attempted other crude methods of assassination that failed. Working off of Borgin's instructions instead of allowing the proprietor see the damage first hand also hampered the progress, as Borgin mentioned earlier. However, he eventually succeeds in 1997, and allowed a group of Death Eaters — Alecto and Amycus Carrow, Corban Yaxley, Thorfinn Rowle, Gibbon, and Fenrir Greyback — to enter Hogwarts from the Borgin & Burkes Vanishing Cabinet, in order to accomplish his mission.[1] The fact that the cabinets were able to grant the Death Eaters entrance into the castle despite the otherwise impenetrable defences horrified the wizarding world at large, as this meant that there was no longer anywhere safe from Voldemort.

1997–1998 school year

During this school year, it is unlikely that the Death Eaters used the pair of cabinets to enter the school because it was already under their control. During the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, when Vincent Crabbe released Fiendfyre in the Room of Requirement,[7] it was likely the Vanishing Cabinet was destroyed, along with many other artefacts hidden there. However, since Lottie Turner and her friend were able to retrieve some furniture that had been placed there since the 1820s about ten years after Crabbe set the room on fire, the Cabinet itself may have been unharmed or restored.[8]

Behind the scenes

  • One of the things that is often noted is that Hogwarts is "unplottable", that it cannot be put on a map, and that wizards and witches cannot apparate to or within it. Additionally, both in Harry's third and sixth year it is mentioned that there are spells preventing entrance via any means save the gates, which are guarded by Dementors in Harry's third year, and by locks that can be opened only by professors in his sixth. Much of the action in Harry's third year involves the secret ways in and out of the castle, and many got the impression that all such passageways are known and have been given added protection since.
  • In the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, when Draco tested the progress of repairing the broken Cabinet, he placed an apple and later a bird into it; both times, the Cabinet was not fully repaired, when the said object was sent to the Cabinet at Borgin and Burkes and back, the apple was missing a moderate chunk, while the bird died. Also, he required the incantation/password, Harmonia Nectere Passus, to activate the Cabinet's powers.
  • The Vanishing Cabinet is replaced by a Crushing Cabinet in the film and video game adaptations of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, as the Borgin and Burkes cabinet had yet to be identified as a Vanishing Cabinet at that time.

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 27 (The Lightning-Struck Tower)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 8 (The Deathday Party)
  3. Hogwarts Legacy (see this video)
  4. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter 4 (At Flourish and Blotts)
  5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Chapter 28 (Snape's Worst Memory)
  6. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 6 (Draco's Detour)
  7. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 31 (The Battle of Hogwarts)
  8. Harry Potter: Magic Awakened - "Chamber behind the portrait" event (see this video)