More thoughts on the Cloak

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No: HPFGUIDX 158554

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.
and
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. <<
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First time poster - pls forgive any duplicate and/or crazy thoughts.

"Your father left this in my possession before he died"

JKR noted that there is a significant - even crucial answer.
Therefore, I do not think there is any way this was given to DD for
even just a mission for the Order. As noted, Mad Eye had two -
depending on the length of time owned, the Order would have already
had access to them for use.  Also, there is no indication that DD
ever let the cloak out of his possession.

Making a little assumption on my part - I read this literally to mean
that James left it with DD specifically, not just any member of the
Order or his best friend, Sirius, etc. etc... Since LV was afraid of
DD and DD resides within the (almost) impenetrable walls of Hogwarts,
the IC was meant to be SAFE. Therefore, James knew this particular IC
was special and that the only person who could take care of it was
DD. This indicates the cloak is even more important than initially
thought.

If it was meant to be kept safe, it could only mean that LV was after
it for a particular reason. Since he was in the process of creating
his Horcruxes - there is the possibility that DD and James discovered
that the IC was a relic of the Four Founders.

While most of that period of time revolved around the Prophecy and
hiding the Potters, DD was aware of the fact that LV was trying to
track down relics of the FF. Although DD wasn't 100% sure of the
reasoning at the time, he obviously knew it wasn't a good thing and
that LV was trying to gain something from finding them. DD and/or
James may have stumbled across the knowledge that the IC had belonged
to one of the FF and knew that it must be kept extremely safe and
secret.

In their discussion of the Horcruxes, DD tells Harry that he is
unaware if LV ever tracked down a relic of Ravenclaw's and that the
only known relic of Gryffindor's, the sword, was safe at Hogwarts.
Since we already know LV had items from Hufflepuff and Slytherin, it
wouldn't have been very crucial hide those. This could possibly mean
the IC belonged to Ravenclaw.

Now I know DD was being really open and honest with Harry at that
time and there is the question of why he wouldn't have told Harry
about the IC if he knew it belonged to a Founder - but we have seen
that sometimes DD doesn't impart information until it is absolutely
necessary and that he doesn't reveal all his secrets.

Besides - How ironic would it be to have Harry have access to the
relics of the two founders that LV couldn't get his hands on????

tk