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[Carol]

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Meliss9900 at ... wrote:
> > As for Moody seeing thorough it, once again he was using a
'magical' eye to  see through a 'magical' object. I don't have much
trouble believing that's possible.
> 
Random832 replied:
> But that's just it - any old invisibility cloak is 'magical' - but
his is supposed to be infallible - even DEATH can't see through it.
I'm leaning towards the eye having a special significance and legends
of its own - after all, if it was just any old magical eye, Umbridge
wouldn't have claimed it as a trophy.

>
Carol responds:

Death can't see through it in "The Tale of the Three Brothers," true.
But, as DD tells Harry in "King's Cross," that story is just a legend
that sprang up about the Hallows some time after their creation. They
were really just the inventions of three highly talented and powerful
wizards. Death as a character or person is no more real in the WW than
the Grim Reaper is in the RW. He's just a personification in a
children's story. So, just as the owner of the "unbeatable" Elder Wand
can be defeated, the supposedly perfect Invisibility Cloak can be seen
through by certain types of magic, including a simple, silent Hominem
Revelio spell, according to JKR (her explanation for DD's ability to
see beneath the cloak in Hagrid's hut. Why didn't the bad guys, or the
usually brilliant Snape, think of that?).

http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2007/0730-bloomsbury-chat.html

("Hominem Revelio" is misspelled as "homenum revelio" in the transcript.)

I have no doubt, though, that the magical eye, which is extremely
creepy and can even see when it's not being used by a person, has, if
not "special significance and legends of its own," at least somewhat
Dark powers. I have a feeling that Mad-eye found it in Knockturn
Alley, such things apparently not being for sale in Diagon Alley under
normal circumstances. (I think Umbridge requested it from her DE
relative Selwyn, myself; otherwise, it's hard to see why he was
suddenly introduced as a DE in Book 7 after being unmentioned for six
books.)

Carol, who thinks that the Hallows are somewhat more fallible than
legend makes them and that even the "Master of Death" idea is probably
exaggerated, death being beyond the power of magic to defeat