More thoughts on the Cloak

[Rick & LeAnn Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 158458

(I'm unable to read every post, so please forgive me if my thoughts are
repeats of previous postings.)

I'm intrigued by the clue of the cloak.  Invisibility cloaks are supposed to
be really rare, yet we've already seen four of them - Harry's, Barty Crouch
Jr's, - and two belonging to Mad Eye Moody.  When Harry first touched the
Invisibility Cloak, he thought it felt like water woven into the material.
Is that how all invisibility cloaks feel, or is it possible that Lily
somehow wove a special potion into this cloak before James gave it to DD?
We still do not know what Lily's job was in the DOM, but we do know she
excelled in Potions class, and that her wand was particularly good for
charms.  What could Lily have been working on that she would have wanted to
hide from the Deatheaters or LV?

Lily and James knew Voldemort was after them, and either there was something
special about the cloak and they did not want it to fall into LV's hands, or
else they purposely hid something in it - perhaps for safekeeping.  If DD
had known about a special purpose, it seems unlikely that he would have
given it to Harry when he was so young - especially since Harry was prone to
leave it in unlikely places.  I had thought at first it might contain some
sort of protection which Lily wove into to help Harry, but then I thought of
all the scrapes Harry got into while wearing the cloak, and I decided if it
did hold a potion for protection, that it didn't work very well. Snape wore
the cloak into the Shrieking Shack, so it seems that if the cloak held an
ordinary type of spell he might have noticed it.  I think if the cloak
contains anything, it will be something unexpected and unknown to all until
it is revealed.  We still don't know why it's important that Harry has his
mother's eyes, and we don't know what her job was - we're also supposed to
learn more about Aunt Petunia.  I think we're going to find out very
important things about Lily and her family.  Perhaps the cloak figures into
that somehow.  We don't know if the cloak was handed down in James' family,
or if he and Lily acquired it after marriage, so at this point it seems that
all possibilities are open, but since James' forte was transfiguration, I'm
guessing that if anyone did something special to the cloak, it had to be
Lily.

In regards to the comment about DD possibly being the last descendant of
Gryffindor - don't forget about Aberforth.  He and DD were very different,
but they were still brothers.

Thank you for listening to my humble thoughts.

Swizzlewand