Hand of Glory

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 183903

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Mike" <mcrudele78 at ...> wrote:

> The Potters first went into hiding, then had the Fidelius performed a 
> year or so later. Could it be that Dumbledore had borrowed James's IC 
> while they were still in their simply hiding phase? James still 
> wouldn't want to go out without it. Maybe Dumbledore kept it all that 
> time performing tests. Or maybe he did some preliminary tests, then 
> had to do more research before he asked for it again to perform his 
> confirming tests.


zanooda:

But this was the whole point of the argument - DD specifically told 
Harry in "King's Cross" that he only found out about James's Cloak and 
borrowed it a few days before James and Lily died. He said: "You have 
guessed, I know, why the Cloak was in my possession on the night your 
parents died. James had showed it to me just a few days previously". 
And then: "I asked to borrow it, to examine it" (p.714).

I don't want to start this discussion again (and I'm grateful to people 
who offered me at least some possibilities to resolve this problem :-
)), but, according to DD, Lily's letter was written less than a week 
before her death (October). However, she goes on writing about Harry's 
July birthday, as if it's just happened. For me, this *is* an 
inconsistency, which for some reason gets on my nerves very much :-).