More thoughts on the Cloak

[laurawkids]

No: HPFGUIDX 158532

<rkelley at ...> wrote:
>
> 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.  > 

Laurawkids:

My daughter has JKR's Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them.  In it 
it describes the Demiguise.  We are toying with the idea ( which you 
all may have been over before)that Dumbledore, who, "Did things with 
a wand I'd never seen before..." (Prof. Marchbanks, Transfiguration 
and Charms Examiner, p711 OotP pb) learned how to transfigure into a 
demiguise sometime after his trip to give Tom Riddle his letter.  
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Demiguise
M.O.M. Classification XXXX [Dangerous/requires specialist 
knowledge/skilled wizard may handle]

The Demiguise is found in the Far East, though only with great 
difficulty, for this beast is able to make itself invisible when 
threatened, and can be seen only by wizards skilled in its capture.  

The Demiguise is a peaceful herbivorous beast, something like a 
graceful ape in appearance, with large, black, doleful eyes more 
often than not hidden by its hair.  The whole body is covered with 
long, fine, silky, silvery hair.  Demiguise pelts are highly valued 
as the hair may be spun into Invisibility Cloaks.
p. 9, Fantastc Beasts
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If DD did this, it might explain the sudden red to silver hair change 
without needing the time-turner.  It could be why he can be invisible 
without a cloak.  

If DD were, he could brush out his hair and keep it to weave into 
cloaks for his friends.  He does walk around with hair down to his 
waist from beard and hair, normally.  

I think he would have woven them himself.  He expresses an interest 
in knitting patterns in Slughorn's hideout washroom.  He could do it 
just like Hermione does, only better and faster.  This might be 
contradicted by him yearning for socks, though.  Maybe he is sick of 
making his own socks, or he has to hide the fact that he could make 
them.  

I would like Harry to find DD's store of woven fur, and Hermione to 
make the "invisibility marquee".  ; D

Note that it says a Demiguise is like a peaceful, graceful ape.  That 
would mean that DD could still control himself well enough to spy 
without having to contend with a noisy or reactive animal nature.  
Padfoot invisible would still draw attention to himself by his doggie 
behavior.  

I am hoping that DD could also transfigure into other forms.  Is 
there any reason to think that that can't be done?

And Abergoat, I like your idea about Aberforth.  His bezoars probably 
save thousands of lives a year.  If he is still the bar owner, but is 
a goat, that would explain why it is so dirty:  he doesn't care as a 
goat, and the barman would rather not clean unless forced, like some 
men I know.

Laurawkids