Enchanted Items

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 144352

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bartl at s...> wrote:

Bart:
> 1) Harry's Invisibility Cloak: Aurors have trouble getting one (from 
> OOP), a lot of people know that Harry has one, they're pretty easy to 
> hide. Harry kept his pretty much a secret from all but Dumbledore 
(who, 
> we ASSUME, passed it on to him; certainly he showed no concern that 
> Harry had it). Yet, nobody tries to steal it from him, not even Draco 
> Malfoy when he has the opportunity.

Geoff:
Dumbledore knew about it because he passed it on - there's no 
assumption, it's canon.

'When he had found his voice again, Harry said "And the Invisibility 
Cloak - do you know who sent it to me?"
"Ah - your father happened to leave it in my possession and I thought 
you might like it." Dumbledore's eyes twinkled. "Useful things... your 
father used it mainly for sneaking off to the kitchens to steal food 
when he was here."'

(PS "The Man with Two Faces" p.217 UK edition)

It suggests that the Potter family were well-off and able to afford 
something which was hard to come by. I suspect no one tried to steal it 
from him because it would be so easily recognisable. It wouldn't do to 
be caught sneaking round Hogwarts in it when there is only one on the 
premises...