The Rare Cloaks - Nitpicking Point - Dumbledore

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 86946

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zihav" <lynch at a...> wrote:

> 
> Tom: Draco *knows* that Harry has an invisibility cloak. ... The thing
> I find interesting about it is that it doesn't make you invisible to 
> everyone. Moody and Dumbledore both can see him when he's wearing the 
> cloak...
> 
> Tom


bboy_mn:

OK, I just couldn't help myself, I had to nitpick on this one point.
While the books make it crystal clear that Moody can see through the
invisibility cloak, it only vaguely implies that Dumbledore can.

Personally, I've been more under the impression that Dumbledore being
old, wise, and with a keen well honed experienced sense of observation
and preception, can sense the presents of people under the
invisibility cloak. But, in my personal opinion, he can't actually see
them.

Although, I will concede that there may be some extremely minor and
subtle aberrations of light around a person who is hidden by an
invisibility cloak that the average person would miss, but that a
keenly aware, very experienced, and highly preceptive person like
Dumbedore might pick up on, so in that sense, he could see the
invisible person. But that's not the same as being able to see through
the invisibility cloak.

Remember, that Moody is only able to see through the cloak because of
his magical eye which can also see through the bones of his skull and
apparently through other solid objects. Although, there does seem to
be some limitation to the extent to which he can see through solid
objects.


Of couse, that's just this mans opinion.

bboy_mn