Seeing magical concealment

[saraquel_omphale]

No: HPFGUIDX 143419

Jen wrote:
> Jen: After re-reading GOF, it struck me Mad-Eye might be able to 
>see magical concealment. He can see through invisibility cloaks and 
> that's a form of concealment, right? OK, maybe I'm stretching 
>there, but no one else except Dumbledore is able to see through 
> invisibility cloaks.
> 
> Other than Mad-eye, I think there's a chance one of the 
characters, > maybe even Harry, will discover an ability to see 
magic as >Dumbledore did. 

Saraquel:
I always had the impression that rather than see with his physical 
eyes, DD sensed people and magic in a 6th sense sort of way (for 
want of a better expression).  In the cave he used his hands, 
passing them over the rockface.  As a masseur, I can sense things 
through my hands.  By putting them over someone's body without 
touching it, I can often pick up what needs working on. The hands 
act like sensors and the interpretation of the 'data' is mainly 
intuitive, I'm not exactly sure what to call it, but it is not just 
the rational mind.

Most people have experienced the situation when they realise that 
someone is behind them, not because they heard or saw the other 
person, but because they suddenly sense them.  Sometimes it is 
possible to know who that person is before seeing or hearing them, 
because you recognise their energy.  It is this type of sense that I 
imagined DD to have developed to a high degree.  Hence he does not 
have to see through an invisibility cloak with his physical eyes, 
but rather senses the presence of a hidden person's energy.  Each of 
us has a unique energy, hence the signature which DD was talking 
about and his ability to know who was concealed. So DD would 
recognise the presence of all the people in a room, whether they 
were covered by an invisibility cloak or not. 

I imagine that magic is the practised harnessing of energy, hence if 
magic has been performed by an individual, they have harnessed 
energy and moulded it to perform a spell, in doing so they would 
leave a sort of imprint of their own energy as well. So regarding 
magical concealment, I imagine that the results of a spell can be 
hidden, but the fact that magic has been done leaves a disturbance 
in the force, Luke, which it would be impossible to disguise. 

About Moody, his eye allows him to see *through* things in a 
physical way, but I personally don't think that he is able to pick 
up at the energy level, like DD.  One thing that has always 
intrigued me, and I wonder if it will become relevant in some way - 
is the Boggart in the Cupboard at Grimauld Place.  What did Moody 
actually see.  He looked up through the walls from the kitchen, into 
the cupboard (OotP prefect party).  Was the boggart aware that it 
was being watched?  Lupin (POA boggart lesson) said that no-one 
knows what a boggart actually looks like. So what did Moody see?  
Did the boggart know it was being looked at and change into what 
Moody fears most, or did Moody see the boggart in its natural form?

Saraquel