Contradiction?

[muscatel1988]

No: HPFGUIDX 176111

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Barry" <whealthinc at ...> wrote:
>
> Around page 45 of DH, Mad-Eye says that they can't do a spell to get 
> Harry out of Privet Drive. Then 6 people take polyjuice. Isn't this a 
> spell and hence a contradiction?
> 
> They can leave on brooms, flying motorbike (isn't this a spell?) or 
> Thestral. Why then, doesn't Harry use his invisibility cloak and a 
> whole different plan?

Mus responds:

My reading of it wasn't that they couldn't do magic, but that they 
couldn't do magic without being detected.  That then was the point of 
the Seven Harries - the decoys were a way of dealing with inevitable 
detection.

You're right, though - I can't think of an objection to Harry using the 
Cloak to get away.  Seven Naked Harries is a more striking visual, 
though (allegedly), and we get a chase scene right at the beginning.

Mus