Invisibility Cloak WAS: Re: Tonks as Auror and aurors in general

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181087

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "hays1962" <hays1962 at ...> wrote:

> > zanooda:

> > <snip>
> > 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"?
 
> hays1962:

> Don't forget that Harry's cloak is one of true invisibility.
> Spells will not work against it. Accio for example in "The
> Deathly Hallows," chapter 28 "The Missing Mirror".


zanooda:

But that's exactly what I was asking about: if Harry's Cloak is so 
unique and spells don't work on it, how come "homenum revelio" can 
reveal a person under the Cloak, according to a JKR's interview (Web 
Chat Transcript)? It doesn't seem logical to me, that's all :-).

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/7/30/j-k-rowling-web-chat-
transcript