[HPforGrownups] Re: Invisibility Cloak

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 49007

>For those who get National Geographic, in this month's edition, there
>is an article that discusses, among other things, "Active
>Camouflage". This is a garment, looking remarkably like a cloak, that
>is made from spider silk. There is some kind of technology added to
>it so that it projects to any viewer the view that is behind it,
>rendering the wearer pretty darn close to invisable, other than a
>slight distortion. Thus, muggle technology directly simulates magic
>in the real world! :)

You know what this sounds like to me? Tolkien's Elven cloaks.

However, although the complex physics explanations of Harry's cloak are very 
interesting, I think there's a simple answer: the cloak is only invisible 
when someone is wearing it (or hiding inside it). Harry unwraps it when he 
gets it for Christmas like any other article of clothing, and Snape sees it 
and picks it up off the ground in PoA.

Janet Anderson

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