Vanishing Cabinet

A pair of Vanishing Cabinets will act as transporters between two places. Objects placed in one cabinet will appear in the other. If one cabinet is broken, a transferred object moves to a kind of limbo.

Harry had previously hidden in a Vanishing Cabinet in Borgin and Burkes in 1992 to avoid being seen by Lucius and Draco Malfoy, but at the time he didn't realise what the Cabinet was, nor its powers.

There is another Vanishing Cabinet at Hogwarts. Peeves damaged this Cabinet 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 the caretaker. In 1996, Fred and George Weasley shoved Montague headfirst into the Cabinet on the first floor of Hogwarts. Montague escaped (by Apparating) and was found in a toilet's u-bend by Draco Malfoy, who summond Professor Snape for help. Montague revealed the previously unknown powers of the Cabinets to Draco. The Hogwarts Vanishing Cabinet was later moved to the Room of Requirement and in 1997 Draco repaired it to allow a group of Death Eaters to enter Hogwarts from the Borgin and Burkes Vanishing Cabinet.

Appearances

 * ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
 * ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
 * ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince