Tonks as Auror and aurors in general WAS: Re: Harry Potter is Anti-Woman

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181043

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

> Also, her finding Harry on the train involves a nice bit of deduction:
> she goes to the compartment with the pulled blinds, and she knows that
> he has an Invisibility Cloak, so, IIRC, she feels around for him
> instead of merely looking.


zanooda:

I wonder why she didn't use "homenum revelio". I want to add that there 
is something strange about "homenum revelio", IMO. JKR said in one of 
her post-DH interviews that DD used it to "see" Harry when he (Harry) 
was under the Invisibility Cloak (like in Hagrid's cabin in CoS, for 
instance). But, if it was that easy, why no one else ever uses this 
spell to discover Harry in his Cloak, even when they suspect he is 
there? 

When Harry got stuck on the stairs in GoF and Snape guessed he was 
there, why did he try to find the boy by stretching out his hands and 
walking around "like a blind man" instead of casting "homenum revelio"? 
I doubt Snape doesn't know the spell. Why didn't he use it in "The 
Sacking of Severus Snape", when he suspected that Harry was with 
McGonagall, wearing the Cloak? Why didn't Yaxley and Dolohov used it in 
the forest, when they heard Harry moving under the Cloak?

And, if it's so easy to discover a person under the Cloak using a 
simple spell, why did Xeno Lovegood said that the Cloak gives "constant 
and impenetrable concealment, no matter what spells are cast at it"?


zanooda, not really asking any questions here, but just wondering 
aloud ...