Dumbledore's Spies

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No: HPFGUIDX 81475

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Tanya Swaine <swaine.t at x> wrote:
> Jake wrote:
> >2) DD had an invisibility cloak that James "left with him."  Why 
did
> >James leave it with him?  Why would James give DD (a much more
> >powerful wizard, who, by his own admission does not need an
> >invisibility cloak to be invisible, an invisibility cloak)?
> >Answer:
> >DD had a spy at the Potters that fateful night.  I don't know who.
> 
> That is an interesting point.  However, the first thing that comes 
to my
> mind is the fact that Snape was more than once on the verge of
> discovering Harry under the cloak when he was in a room etc.  Just
> how well dose he know about it?  If I recall correctly, he was 
feeling
> ahead of him in one scene.  Considering no one else took that line.
> 
> Tanya

Maybe the invisibility cloak was confiscated by DD while James was 
still at school. We know James and Sirius were rivaled only by the 
weasley twins for the mischeif they got up to. Sirius himself has 
admitted in OoP that the pair often were in detention at the same 
time but in separate locations, as they would communicate via the 
pair of enchanted mirrors. Maybe both James and DD forgot about the 
confiscated cloak. In PS/SS DD realised he'd need to give Harry an 
appropriate tool to find the mirror of erised, James' invisibility 
cloak, without being caught out of bed at night by other staff, 
namely Snape as Tanya pointed out above.

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