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

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 181096

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

> Few ideas:

> 1) Macbethian solution: The spell is not cast at the CLOAK, but at
> humans/surroundings in general... Like some sort of heat-camera or
> echo-scan, only a specified spell.
 
> 2) It works for Dumbledore, because he's using Elderwand that's
> unbeatable.
 
> 3) Dumbledore has knowledge that the Invisibility Cloak could be in
> use there.
 
> 4) The spell may detect and magnify sound of human breath - so
> Dumbledore knows how many humans and where in the room there were...
 
> 5) Maybe it's a spell only Dumbledore (and JKR) know about? Maybe it
> was Aberforth's invention when Albus became invisible during their
> play of hide-and-seek?



I think that your ideas number 1, 2 and 4 are good, but the ideas 
number 3 and 5 don't work for me :-), because:

3) DD can suspect that Harry is under the IC, but so can other 
characters, who don't attempt to use "homenum revelio" - Snape 
in "The Sacking of Severus Snape", the DE's in Hogsmeade and in the 
forest. Why won't they try to use it?

5) It is the "homenum revelio" spell, not something that only DD 
knows. The link that I gave earlier doesn't work, so here is the 
exact quote from the transcript:

Question: "Why is it that albus dumbledore can see harry under his 
invisibility cloak at certain moments?"

Answer: "Dumbledore, who could perform magic without needing to say 
the incantation aloud, was using "homenum revelio" - the human-
presence-revealing spell Hermione makes use of in Deathly Hallows".

So it's not something unique - Hermione knows this spell, and so do 
the DEs ("The Tale of the Three Brothers").

The rest of your ideas are very good, and I must think them over. 
Thank you!

P.S. What "macbethian solution" means :-)?


zanooda