Re: CHAPDISC: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Chapter 17, Bathilda’s Secre

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 182367


> > 3. "Bathilda" seems to be able to see Harry and Hermione beneath
the Invisibility Cloak. Does this mean that Nagini can see through Cloaks?
> Does LV know they're there and communicates it to Nagini? Clearly,
> someone is there, since the sign has risen out of the ground, but
how does LV!Nagini know where they're standing?

Pippin:
Nagini can't exactly see through the cloak, but she can see the cloak
itself even when it's making someone invisible to human eyes. 
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>From OOP, ch 21 :

It was dark yet he could see objects around him shimmering in strange,
vibrant colors. 
...He was turning his head....At first glance, the corridor was
empty...but no...a man was sitting on the floor ahead, his chin
drooping onto his chest, his outline gleaming in the dark....
Harry put out his tongue....He tasted the man's scent on the air....He
was alive but drowsing...sitting in front of a door at the end of the
corridor...
Harry longed to bite the man...but he must master the impulse....He
had more important work to do....
But the man was stirring....a silvery cloak fell from his legs as he
jumped to his feet;
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Pippin:
The cloak must have slipped off Arthur's upper body as he slept and
puddled in his lap. A human looking at Arthur would have seen only the
upper half of his body, and perhaps a pair of feet with nothing but
the door in between. The cloak itself would have been invisible, as it
is when Draco sees Harry's disembodied head in Hogsmeade. 

Nagini could have smelled Harry and Hermione while they had the cloak
on,  but presumably Harry would smell like the Muggle he was
impersonating, not like the boy Nagini had met in the graveyard. 

 I suppose Nagini was lurking in the graveyard until she saw them put
flowers on the grave and pull on the silvery cloak. Then she went and
got Bathilda's body (ugh!) and followed them by scent to the Potter
house. But I don't think she could be sure it was Harry until she
spoke to him in parseltongue and he answered her. I don't think she
communicated with Voldemort until then...unlike the episode with
Arthur, Voldemort was not actually possessing the snake. 

Pippin