James left Cloak with DD - Why?

[Tonks]

No: HPFGUIDX 155475

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hagrid" <aussie_lol at ...> 
wrote:
>
> Christmas in PS/SS, Harry got James' invisibility cloak with this 
> note -
> 
> "Your father left this in my possession before he died. It is time 
> it was returned to you. Use it well.
> A Very Merry Christmas to you."
> 
> So why did James leave it with DD? Not for DD to use ...
> 
> "I don't need a cloak to become invisible," DD 
> 
> Now that we know more about the lead up to that Halloween when 
James 
> and Lily died, does this message seem odd to anyone?
> 
> James, Lily and Harry are in hiding, yet leave an invisibility 
cloak 
> with the head of OOTP. James would have found it handy to move 
> around outside, but DD must have convinced him someone else needed 
> it more than him.
> 
> Any ideas? Someone escaping (RAB), or someone spying?
>

Tonks:
I have always assumed that it was left behind when he was a student. 
Sort of like the Mauraders Map was left at Hogwarts. I have never 
thought that there was anything important about it. Maybe it was 
conficated for some wrong doing and James just never went back to 
get it.

Tonks_op