Invisibility Cloaks and Lupin the man/werewolf(PoA time travel James/Remus thing)

[Oona <srsiriusblack@aol.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49264

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Susan Atherton" <suzloua at h...> 
wrote:
> >Susan:
> > If Mad Eye Moody's magical eye and the Marauder's Map can see 
Harry
> in his Cloak, it would indicate that the Cloak is not completely
> impervious. (It's been hinted in PS and CoS that Dumbledore can even
> see through it, magical eye or not) So do the same old laws of 
physics
> that bind the rest of us bind someone wearing a Cloak? If they can 
be
> felt and touched, they obviously don't disappear, they are just
> concealed. So do they cast a shadow? And if, as I suspect, they do,
> why doesn't anyone notice?!
> 

I have some ideas about this. 
Muggles only see what they want to see- i.e. they miss things like 
houses jumping out of the way and some of the strangeness that is not 
always protected by magical charms and the like in the WW- to steal a 
line from Beetlejuice- "Mortals usually do not see the strange and 
unusual, I myself, am strange and unusal."

SO with that line of thought, I would think that there are objects 
such as the Invisibility cloak that are not always seen by wizards, 
as they may be strange and unusual and not something that 
wizards/witches are always looking for in every day life. Dumbledore, 
a great wizard, would after spending a lifetime teaching children and 
fighting against evil would most likely always have an open eye for 
these types of things/events. OR, on another line of thought, 
Dumbledore seems to me to have *some* kind of yet-to-be-explained 
psychic powers. Maybe he can sense the presence of those in 
Invisibility Cloaks, as that is most likely some explanation for the 
eyeless baddies, aka the Dementors.
Invisibility Cloaks don't make the person disappear. They only make 
the person appear to be "not there". With that type of thinking it 
might be possible for the cloak in some strange magically way not to 
cast a shadow, and if it does, maybe there is some magic at work 
around that, as well. 

The only ways I can think of your average wizard, or even muggle for 
that matter, to become suspicious is by sound, i.e. breathing, 
footsteps and the like, touch- running into something solid when 
there isn't something solid there, or by having some kind of sense. 

Whether that sense be a learnt one or a natural one is yet to be 
seen....

-Snuffles