Invisibilty Cloaks

[ats_fhc3 <the.gremlin@verizon.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48915

Susan wrote:
"If Mad Eye Moody's magical eye and the Marauder's Map can see Harry 
in his Cloak, it would indicate that the Cloak is not completely 
impervious. (It's been hinted in PS and CoS that Dumbledore can even 
see through it, magical eye or not) So do the same old laws of physics 
that bind the rest of us bind someone wearing a Cloak? If they can be 
felt and touched, they obviously don't disappear, they are just 
concealed. So do they cast a shadow? And if, as I suspect, they do, 
why doesn't anyone notice?!"

Another fantasy series I am currently reading (and inpatiently waiting 
for the next book to come out), The Wheel of Time, has people who can 
either make themselves invisible, or make themselves appear as someone 
else (no potions included). They do this by bending light and stuff 
around them, so that people just don't see them. They also have 
creatures that appear near invisible becuase someone's eyes just want 
to slide around them. There is also a cloak that can shift it's colors 
to make the wearer seem invisible.

I'm guessing that the invisibility cloak can refract light and color 
to make it seem that the person wearing it is not there. They blend in 
with their surroundings, but still can be felt and touched because 
they are still there. They don't cast a shadow because of the way the 
light is bent.

-Acire, who is without her trusty lap top and must wait in line to use 
the house computer.