[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR has updated her site today -- WEBSITE SPOILER!

[Lynda Cordova]

No: HPFGUIDX 158253

SPOILER!  SPOILER! SPOILER!








I didn't think this was a question that needed to be answered as in SS it is
stated albeit rather obliquely that it was being held for Harry for when the
time came that he could use it and would appreciate it.  So there was no
reason for me to ask this particular question.


On 9/13/06, hpfan_mom <rdsilverstein at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>    <maria8162001 at ...> wrote:
> >
> > Hello fellow HP4GU members. JKR updated her site today and I guess
> all of the members would be interested to know that she (JKR)
> answered, though belatedly, a question which was asked by one of the
> audience in her NY reading. The question was supposed to be
> like, "What is the question you have never been asked that you ought
> to have been asked?"
> >
> > Her answer can be found in her Extra Stuff section of her website,
> and clicking Miscellaneous.
> >
> > S
> > P
> > O
> > I
> > L
> > E
> > R
> >
> > S
> > P
> > A
> > C
> > E
> >
> > The answer is "Why did Dumbledore have James' invisibility cloak at
> the time of James' death, given that Dumbledore could make himself
> invisible without a cloak?"
> >
> > She also stated that "there IS a significant -- even crucial --
> answer."
> >
> > maria8162001
> >
> hpfan_mom now:
>
> I accept JKR's explanation that she blanked when asked this question
> on-stage, but it worked out nicely for her in that she got a chance
> to think about exactly how to phrase the question.
>
> I had previously wondered why DD had James' invisibility cloak, but
> never exactly as JKR suggests we think about it: AT THE TIME OF
> JAMES' DEATH.
>
> The logical inference for me is that DD received the IC *before*
> James died, in order to actually have it AT the time of death. This
> would preclude theories about someone taking the IC from the rubble
> of Godric's Hollow. Instead, we should be thinking about *why* James
> would have given DD the cloak.
>
> As members of the Order who had defied Voldemort at least once and
> perhaps already thrice, the Potters went into hiding. Why would
> James not keep his IC, surely a useful magical resource for someone
> who doesn't want to be seen? JKR tells us that DD doesn't need it
> for himself, so did DD need it for someone else?
>
> I can't see that DD would think someone needed the cloak more than
> James, who was so much in danger that he took his wife and toddler
> son into hiding. ICs are not common, but Moody even has a spare one,
> IIRC.
>
> Is there something about this particular IC that makes it
> significant? I'm not convinced of this theory either - James
> wouldn't worry about a thing more than his family, would he? And if
> it were magically significant, wouldn't DD have told Harry by now?
>
> Is it possible that James didn't *give* DD the cloak but that DD
> *took* it?
>
> I know I'm raising questions, not answering them, but hopefully some
> of these questions will lead to a fruitful discussion --
>
> hpfan_mom
>
> 
>



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