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

[hp_fan_2008]

No: HPFGUIDX 181070

zanooda:
 
> I wonder why she[Tonks] 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? 

hp_fan_2008:

Maybe it reveals that there is someone under a cloak, but not who it
is, or the precise location. In GoF, when Harry was stuck on the
stairs, Snape guessed that Harry was there, and "homenum revelio"
would have confirmed that someone was, although no more than that. It
would not have allowed him to know the precise location - probably no
more than he could have guessed by the golden egg and the map.