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First, a few odd instances concerning Invisibility Cloak(s):

Dumbledore gives a child (Harry) a Cloak, for what possible purpose

oh yeah, so he can find a mirror. Why would you give a child a Cloak 
that can only be used so no one can see what you are doing, unless 
you expect him to use it? 

Snape finds the Cloak outside the entrance to the Whomping Willow

inside Snape thanks Harry for the Cloak, How does Snape know the 
Cloak is Harry's?

Lupin gives Harry the Cloak after the fiasco at the Shack, how did he 
get it when he was in the woods all night as a werewolf?

Dumbledore can see through Cloaks or knows when someone is present 
while wearing one.

Dementors cannot be fooled by Cloaks

Crouch Jr. ended up with a Cloak that Winky used to hide him, where 
did Winky get it? 

Fake Moody knew that Harry was on the stairs when he was under the 
Cloak.

Moody says that Podmore (I think) never returned his Cloak. (Jr's 
Cloak perhaps)


There are quite a few references to Cloaks that may be important when 
we are attempting to figure out what was so important about James 
giving Dumbledore his Cloak before his death. 


If Sirius were using the Cloak to hide himself during the Potters' 
seclusion, then how did Dumbledore get it back without knowing that 
Sirius was innocent? 

Likewise, if Peter were to have used it, how did it become in 
possession by Dumbledore? 

Snape couldn't have used it to spy on Voldemort since Dumbledore, Mad 
Eye and the Dementors, at the very least, feel a presence when you 
are underneath one; certainly Voldemort could detect one if they can. 
(I say presence because Dementors can't see)

If Snape used the Cloak at Godric's Hollow then it might follow that 
Snape would have known who the betrayer was. I would think that there 
would have been some conversation between James and Voldemort before 
his death over the betrayer. 

Not only that, but again there is a slight problem with Voldemort 
feeling the presence of someone underneath a Cloak. Voldemort would 
have questioned Snape at his first physical opportunity (post 
graveyard scene, by about 10 min.) as to his allegiance to his 
fellows about the facts of that night if Voldemort knew Snape had 
been there. 

How could Snape worm his way out of his true allegiance to Voldemort 
if he had kept quiet all these years to Lucius et al about the facts 
of that night if Snape had actually seen what had happened from 
underneath a Cloak and Voldemort knew it? 

Just one last thought to add 
 from whom did Harry's father, James, 
get this Cloak since James inherited it from his family but James mom 
and dad didn't die until, at least, his latter years of school 
(Sirius living with them after he turned sixteen or seventeen) and 
Dumbledore and Lupin referenced that James used it to nick food and 
Lupin said that he had seen it several times in their outings. The 
outings were in their fifth year so James parents haven't died yet, 
so who did James inherit the Cloak from cause it wasn't mom and dad? 
It might be important. 

Oops one more last thought, promise
what if James allowed Dumbledore 
to borrow his Cloak to hide the other intended victim?

Snow attributing many of these thoughts to listee's of days gone by