Some Pointers? (Incorporating Re: JKR question about Cloak)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 168256

Aussie:
> > ... And are we any closer to know WHY DD HAD THE CLOAK?
 
Goddlefrood:
> Not so far :)
<snip>
> I'll not go too deeply into the reasoning behind what follows, 
> but to put it simply James may have given his cloak to DD for
> several reasons, some of which are in this list:
> 
<snip reasons (i) through (iii)>
>
> (iv) At the more bizarre end of the scale James may have given
> it to DD because his need for it was greater than James's as 
> James had some inkling of and preparedness for his own death. 
> Why then let LV get his hands on it? Give it to DD for 
> safekeeping to later pass it on to Harry, which he in fact did
> do in PS/SS.
> 
> All the above have problems, not the least of which is that
> Mad-Eye also probably had one or two Invisibility Cloaks
> lying around ;).


SSSusan:
What you have written here at the end, Goddlefrood, is what makes me 
inclined towards option (iv).  Whether Moody had an Invisibility 
Cloak or two lying about would actually be irrelevant to James if 
his reason for placing his own in DD's care were his own 
preparedness for and expectation of the likelihood of his death.  

*Perhaps* he also felt keeping the IC with him unnecessary, if he 
trusted in the FC to hide them, and might well have believed an 
extra IC with the Order was a good thing.  But if not that, then the 
possibility that he was ensuring its passing on to Harry seems a 
strong one to me.

Siriusly Snapey Susan