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A Crushing Cabinet was a torture device consisting of an iron cabinet in which a person was slowly crushed, as they found the walls, floor and ceiling closing in. The crushing walls were activated by closing the door shut.[4]

History[]

Dinah Hecat owned a Crushing Cabinet, which she kept in her classroom while serving as the Defence Against the Dark Arts professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the 1890s.[3]

A Crushing Cabinet could be found inside the Interrogation Room in Azkaban.[2]

Borgin and Burkes owned a Crushing Cabinet, at least during the summer of 1992, when Harry Potter hid in it to hide from Draco Malfoy after accidentally travelling to Knockturn Alley via the Floo Network.[1]

Behind the scenes[]

Cabinet

Harry going into the cabinet in the video game adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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