The Rare Cloaks

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 86908

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "spang_b" <spang_b at y...> wrote:
> Hi,
>   We know that Harry has an invisibility cloak. And so does Moody. 
> But it seems nobody else( at least in the order) has one, because 
> they are always talking of borrowing Moody's cloak. Are they really 
> that rare?
> Bye
> Adi

Geoff:
There was a third involved - Moody had a second one, but that is now 
out of their hands.

"'Why was Dung hiding fom us?' asked Ron sounding apprehensive.
'He was banned from the Hog's Head twenty years ago,' said 
Sirius, 'and that barman's got a long memory. We lost Moody's spare 
Invisibility Cloak when Sturgis was arrested so Dung's been dressing 
as a witch a lot lately.....'"

(OOTP "Educational Decree Number Twenty-Four" p.329 UK edition)

Just in passing, what was the silver Cloak that Arthur Weasley had 
with him when he was attacked/ It doesn't appear to have been an 
Invisibility Cloak....

"...at first glance the corridor was empty... but no..... a man was 
sitting on the floor ahead, his chin drooping on to his chest, his 
outline gleaming in the dark....

But the man was stirring.. a silver Cloak fell from his legs as he 
jumped to his feet;"

(OOTP "The Eye of the Snake" pp.408/09 UK edition)

Or was this perhaps /another/ IC which had slipped off Arthur as he 
dozed?

Geoff