[HPforGrownups] Nagini and the Invisibililty Cloak - thoughts?

Maria maccanena at gmail.com
Wed Jul 25 16:27:39 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 172703

On 7/25/07, doppioprego <doppioprego at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  In Godric's Hollow, Nagini (as Bathilda) was able to see, recognise and
>  beckon Harry to come into the house, despite the fact he and Hermione
>  were under the cloak AND disguised as a middle-aged couple. In the
>  Shrieking Shack during the Voldemort/Snape showdown she is shown is
>  floating around in the bubble whilst Snape repeatedly asks Voldy
>  to 'let me bring you the boy'. Why would Nagini not have spotted Harry
>  hiding under the cloak and told Voldy of this? Would have spared an
>  awful lot of time and magical effort in destroying the Hogwarts castle
>  to root him out.

I am a bit confused now as I still have to reread most of the book,
but the way I understood it is that visiting James's and Lily's grave
is what gave them away. So Nagini was watching behind some bushes and
knew they had arrived.

Maria




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