Lily's panic was Re: Fees for Harry

[allies426]

No: HPFGUIDX 179437

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
>
> > Shelley:
> > Oh, come on. Do you really think that if Lily had an 
invisibility cloak that 
> > she wouldn't have immediately ducked under it with Harry and 
then attempted 
> > to be as quiet as possible? Do you really think that she'd be 
screaming her 
> > head off beneath an invisibility cloak, or making noise by 
attempting to 
> > block the door if she might need it to excape???
> 
> Pippin:
> In the first place, Peter Pettigrew knew all about the cloak, so 
Voldemort
> would have been prepared for it. In the second place, if Lily 
didn't think
> of being still and silent and then sneaking out of the house while 
Voldemort 
> was looking for her, why would she think of it if she'd had the 
cloak? 
> 
> Panicky people do stupid things because panic makes people stupid -
-
> it has nothing to do with how smart they are otherwise, or whether 
there
> are means of escape which they could have used if they weren't out 
of their
> minds with fear.
> 

Allie:

I tend to agree here.  If Lily could do a disillusionment charm 
(which I'm sure she must have been able to do, since Crabbe and 
Goyle were proficient enough in it that they went unnoticed by Harry 
& co. in the Battle of Hogwarts), then she would have been able to 
accomplish virtually the same thing as with a cloak.  Cast a charm 
over herself and Harry and they can be hidden.  I still don't think 
this would have fooled Voldemort, nor would a cloak, but she didn't 
think of it in the panic.