"Seeing" through invisility cloaks (WAS Re: Imperio'd Member of the Order)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 92687

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "drjuliehoward" 
<drjuliehoward at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at q...> 
> wrote:

Berit:
> > > > ...It's not only the incident of the Mirror of 
> > > > Erised; Dumbledore was also very much aware of Harry and 
> > Ron's  presence in Hagrid's hut when Fudge came to arrest 
> > Hagrid in CoS...
> > > 
> > > > So, this suggests quite strongly DD knew they were there. If 
> > it's  only a "feeling" he gets, some sort of radar, or if his
> > eyesight 
> >  physically is able to penetrate the fabric of the cloak we don't 
> > know, but from the "flickering of his eyes" it's safe to assume 
he 
> >  can see through invisibility cloaks.<<
 
Pippin:
> Or, as some have speculated, DD has some demiguise in his heritage.

Geoff:
Has JKR been influenced by JRRT? Perhaps Dumbledore is related to Tom 
Bombadil. He could put on the Ring and not disappear and could see 
Frodo when he was wearing the Ring and no one else could?