Hand of Glory

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 183913

 
> Carol:
> He got the DEs in through the Vanishing Cabinet that it took him the
> whole year to fix. He could have had a DE bring the Hand with him
from Borgin and Burke's, which would make perfect sense, but that's
not consistent with Ron's knowing about it. (BTW, he also sneaked in
the Peruvian Darkness Powder, but I suppose that, being a Weasley
product, it somehow had enchantments on it to escape detection. 

Pippin:
 Fred and George can enchant things to escape detection, but it's
beyond the Malfoys or B&B? LOL! 

Ron doesn't know that Draco has the Hand of Glory at Hogwarts during
year 6 until he and Ginny see it when Draco emerges from the RoR. When
Ron mentions it earlier, in Chapter 7 of HBP, it's before the school
year has started and they're speculating about what Draco could want
repaired. Ron thinks maybe Draco could have broken his Hand of Glory,
and that's the first we hear that Draco has it.  

But it's perfectly consistent with Draco having gotten it previously,
and bragging about it. 

Carol: 
> BTW, you mentioned the precautions being a joke. What, besides the
> disguised love potions, got into the school that wasn't supposed to
be there? Filch was onto the cursed necklace right away (though he had
to be warned not to touch it), and the poisoned mead wasn't caught
> because it was brought in by a teacher, not a student.

Pippin:
The fanged frisbee that Hermione confiscates from a fourth year, plus
 Ron's malfunctioning spell-check quill, and the fact that Fred and
George never complain that the blanket ban on WWW items is hurting
their business. Harry even asks the Scooby Gang to brainstorm how
Draco could have got something past the castle's defenses after Katy
is attacked, but they blow him off. 

> 
> Carol:
> I'll try to make it clearer. Sure, the experiment works for Draco.
But how is he supposed to "show off his acquisition," which allows
*him* to see in the dark, when no one else can see because they're not
> holding the hand? 

Pippin:
The hand's not invisible. Draco  doesn't have to demonstrate it to
exhibit it  and talk about how it works. Possibly JKR might have  put
a scene like that in OOP, but really the book is long enough already.
There's nothing distracting about it, IMO, unless you were expecting 
some kind of plot development based on Lucius's refusal to buy Draco
the HoG in CoS.  But once we  learn that he gives in eventually over
the broomstick, IMO that's not important.

Pippin