James' Invisibility Cloak (was Alastor, and James' money, and godmother/marr

[Matt]

No: HPFGUIDX 110763

Catlady:
> > > 
> > > Q: "Where did James get his Invisibility Cloak?"
> > > JKR: "That was inherited from his own father -- 
> > > a family heirloom!"

Romulus Lupin: 
> > 
> > Ok, things might be different in the Potterverse, 
> > but I thought you could only inherit from someone 
> > who was dead, right? 
> > [But James had the cloak while he was at school,
> > at which time James's father was still alive.]
 
Potioncat:
>
> I think JKR used the word inherit as in "passed down."  
> Sometimes parents pass down family heirlooms to their 
> children while the children can use them, or after 
> the parent doesn't really have a need for the heirloom.
> 
> Perhaps the Potters are a long line of rule breakers 
> and it is family tradition to give the son the IC 
> while at school.

Or perhaps, as with the snitch in the Pensieve scene, James nicked the
invisibility cloak to use while at school.  He could always have
legitimately inherited it later on.

-- Matt