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[Carol]

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Melissa wrote:
 
> How many people really know about Harry's cloak though?    
>  
> Hermione, Ron, Sirius, Lupin, Pettigrew, & Hagrid of course. Did 
any other adult other than Dumbledore? Mr and Mrs Weasley?  Professor
 McGonagall? The Twins?. Snape might have suspected it but I can't 
recall if he actually knew for certain about it. <snip>
>  
Carol responds:

Snape wore it in PoA before he went into the Shrieking Shack,
remember? And he suspected (correctly) that Harry was wearing it on
the stairs in GoF in the nighttime incident when Harry drops the
golden egg and gets his foot caught in the trick stair. I suspect that
Snape knew quite well that Harry was on the tower under the IC when he
(Snape) had to kill DD, given that Snape would have seen the second
broom and "put two and two together as only Snape could." (Fake!Moody,
of course, also knew about it considering that he could see through
it, but since he's soul-sucked at the end of GoF, it's a moot point.
The real Moody also knows about it; he tells Harry in OoP that it will
blow off as they're riding their brooms, so he Disillusions Harry,
instead.)

Draco (admittedly not an adult) knows about it as of HBP when he
breaks Harry's nose and steps on his hand, so it's most likely that
any adults connected with him knew about it, too, either because they
told him or he told them. And someone (Lucius? Draco? Wormtail?) must
have told LV since the DEs know about the cloak when HRH Apparate into
Hogsmeade. (They don't, of course, know that it's the cloak made by
Ignotus Peverell.)

Carol, who thinks that the entire Order probably knows about it as well