[HPforGrownups] Re: Invisibility Cloak

[Angela Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 49002


 
 
vaseemf at y... writes:

>One of the things that truobles me is how Harry can see the
> cloak. If light passes through it or around it he shouldn't be
> able to see it.
> 

The theories on light distortion are good and make sense, but they lead to all these other problems like shadows, and the actual cloak being invisible, etc.  I think people are trying to give the cloak's powers too much of a "scientific" explanation.  Magic in Potterverse completely disregards the laws of nature and physics, the invisibility cloak doesn't have to "work"in any way we can explain.  It is simply magic and it makes you invisible.  And not all invisibility is the same.  For example we CAN see the invisibility cloak (silver), but we (or the poor guy at Flourish and Blotts) could NOT see the Invisible Book of Invisibility.  I guess I just do not see this as something that needs to be "explained" rationally, using "muggle science" if you will.  It is like a wizarding radio.  If you saw a wizarding radio (or wireless) and it was playing some tune, you could explain how a radio works, how the sounds travels and comes out the speakers, but that simply is not how a wizarding radio works, it is just magic.

 

ANGELA



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