Dumbledore - Cats - Portkey - Cloak Flint

[Amy Z]

No: HPFGUIDX 25004

Sharlene wrote:
 
> Lupin said he brought the cloak back from the Shreiking Shack, 
which 
> he did--even if he did get a little bit side tracked in the process.

OK, I'm going to eat my words (not the bit about Cindy being inducted 
into LOON, though--I stand by that).  Sharlene is right; he might 
well say this if he did exactly what is described in the book:  took 
the cloak from the shack but didn't make good on getting it to Harry 
until after he'd spent a night doing heaven knows what in the 
forest.  I think it's a little odd of him to phrase it this way, 
since Harry *saw* him put it in his pocket; the phrasing suggests 
that Lupin went and got it at another time.  But it might not be a 
Flint.

As for it not being wrecked in the tussle, it was in his pocket and 
therefore safely "went" wherever his clothes and wand "go" when he 
transforms (a la our Animagus discussion--though werewolf 
transformations are clearly different, e.g. they're painful).  I also 
wouldn't be surprised if it were difficult to destroy an Invisibility 
Cloak.

Amy Z

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 Professor Trelawney kept predicting Harry's 
 death, which he found extremely annoying.
                -HP and the Goblet of Fire
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