[HPforGrownups] OOP: Invisibility Cloak/Sirius

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 69882

dreambeliever001 wrote:
> I'm in the middle of reading OOP for my third time when something 
> struck me as kind of strange. I don't understand why Sirius could not 
> help the order.  When Mundungus and all the other members of the 
> Order were keeping an eye on Harry they used an Invisibility Cloak. 
> Why couldn't have Sirius also used the cloak not only to help the 
> order but to keep an eye on Harry?  He wouldn't have been seen by 
> anyone and yet he would of felt as if he was doing something 
> important for the Order.  I don't know, just a thought.  

Because he would not have resisted the temptation to reveal 
himself to Harry, which would have raised all sorts of problems. 
  For instance, he might have been seen by one of the bad guys 
(of either variety) also keeping an eye on Harry.