TBAY: All these kids with Inv. cloaks

[Risti <pretty_feet51@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51895


It was a very grumpy Risti who flew her Nimbus 2002 towards the 
Safehouse.  She had managed to resist the temptation to bring her 
latest theory into the Bay, and it had still taken her forever to 
work out, and then just when she thought she could go to bed, she 
stumbled upon this argument.  Blast her mind for seemingly 
insignificant details.  She couldn't help but smile after that.  She 
couldn't wait to show up the veterans.  For indeed, their was a shiny 
canon enchanted to fly behind her broomstick.  Her, really hardly 
more then a newbie, had found it, when Melody, Cindy, and even Elkins 
hadn't.

She flew in front of the window she had seen Melody and Cindy talking 
at the night before.

"Alohomora," she said to the window, and it opened.  She couldn't 
help but laugh at how true it was that often the simplest solution 
was the best.

>From there, she simply followed the muddy footprints until she 
reached the kitchen, still floating the canon behind her.

"Ooh, pop tarts!" she exclaimed as she opened the kitchen door, 
ignoring the confused looks on the faces of the other 
three.  "Sorry," she said after finishing a strawberry toaster 
pastry, "I suppose I should introduce myself again. Risti's the name, 
and while it's been awhile, I think I have met all of you at least 
once around the bay."

She let the canon rest on the floor then, and while Melody, Cindy, 
and Elkins stared at it, she walked over to the MAGIC DISHWASHER.

"Wow, so this is what it looks like.  I keep meaning to give it a 
try, but I'm still not a hundred percent sure..." she trailed off as 
her gaze went up to the PRESSURE COOKER on the counter above.  "I 
still understand it more then that, at least."

"Ahem."

Risti turned around as Cindy cleared her throat.

"Is there a reason you brought this down here?"

"Of course there is!  You see, I couldn't help but overhear you and 
Melody talking last night, and while I kept expecting you to bring 
this particular piece of information up, you never did.

"What information?" asked Melody excitedly, "You mean there's canon 
to back up what we were talking about?"

"Well, I don't know that I'd go that far.  Actually, I'm afraid I'm 
going to have to correct something that Cindy said," Risti admitted 
with an apologetic smile.

"You seem to like doing that, don't you," Cindy said, with 
surprisingly only a trace of sarcasm in her voice.

"Well, you did say that you didn't think real Moody had a cloak, 
right?"

"I seem to recall saying that," Cindy said slowly.

"Well, I suppose it is still possible that it wasn't his..." Risti 
trailed off, "What I really came here for was because one of you 
called out for any canon, or even inference, of an invisibility cloak 
in the books, right?"

"That would've been me," said Melody.

"Well, that's what I'm here for," said Risti with a smile as she 
finally bent down and lit the canon.

GOF, Veritserum, p591, Canadian Hardcover

...Dumbledore closed the trunk, placed a second key in the second 
lock, and opened the trunk again.  The spellbooks had vanished; this 
time it contained an assortment of broken Sneakoscopes, some 
parchment and quills, and what looked like a silvery Invisibility 
Cloak.

"Well obviously we've already established that Fake-Moody has an 
invisibility cloak.  He used it to put Imperius on Krum that day," 
said Cindy with a look of triumph.

"Yes, Fake Moody did use an invisibility cloak earlier that day, but 
do you really think he would have had time to put it back in his 
trunk?  Remember he took Harry with him to his office," Risti 
said.  "Look, I really don't have many ideas on what to do with this 
bit of canon, I just thought that you should know about it, and well, 
I missed the Bay, so I thought I'd drop by."

Risti turned then, grabbing another pop tart as she headed towards 
the kitchen door.  Before she reached it, however, she spun around 
once more, a thought just occuring to her.

"Oh, one more thing Melody, about the Malfoy family owning an 
invisibility cloak."

"Yes?"

"Well, first of all, I don't think Draco knows Harry has a cloak, 
just that Harry's head managed to make it to Hogsmeade that one time 
back in PoA.  In any case, you really answered your own question back 
in your original post."

"I did?" Melody asked, frowning in confusion.

"Yes, you did, to quote you, Dumbledore is
lucky Harry is such a moral student and does not abuse that privilege.
I can think of quite a few people that would not be as thrifty.
No...out and out stingy with the uses of that cloak. How nice is it
that Harry uses it from the viewpoint of doing good."

"I still don't quite get it, how does that explain Lucius not having 
an invisibility cloak?" Melody asked.

"Maybe some of Cindy's words would make it a little clearer," Risti 
chuckled, "I believe she said something along the lines that no sane 
parent up and gives something like an Invisibility Cloak to a teenage 
boy.  Think about it.  If you were Lucius, and had a son like Draco, 
would you even mention that an invisibility cloak existed in your 
house?"

Melody chuckled.  "I see your point."

~Risti, who really was about to go to bed, and really did apparantly 
miss the Bay enough to drag a very simple point into a long TBAY 
narrative.