Ron/cloak question

[Jerri/Dan Chase]

No: HPFGUIDX 183448


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie"
> <sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
>> Ron mentioning, in an offhand way, that Harry's cloak is
>> "in good shape" is that. If nothing had come of it it
>> would have been exactly what it sounded like--Ron, having
>> seen cloaks before, comments that Harry's is in good shape.
>
> Please, guys, if anyone remembers where exactly Ron said this, could
> you let me know? Someone wrote that it's in PS/SS, but I can't find 
> it
> in there. Is it in some other book? I mean all the books except for
> DH, I know the DH stuff - about Harry's Cloak being perfect etc. But 
> I
> can't remember where else Ron said something about the Cloak being 
> "in
> good shape", and this just drives me crazy ;-(. Please help 
> (off-list
> welcome)!
>
> zanooda, who just really *needs* to know where the quote came from 
> ...

I am pretty sure that the comment that Harry's cloak is "in good 
shape" was not made by Ron or anyone else, pre-DH.  Ron says " - 
they're really rare and really valuable."  That first Christmas the 
only thing that Harry gets that is commented on as "better" is his 
Weasley Sweater/Jumper about which Fred says:  "Harry's is better than 
ours, though".

Until DH I see no indication that Harry's cloak is any better than any 
other invisibility cloak.  Harry never sees glimpses of parts of the 
people who are watching him under cloaks, for example.  And while 
Arthur has the cloak fall off, disclosing parts of him in OoP, Harry 
also has his cloak not cover him entirely in HBP, when he is doing 
that very stupid act of hiding in Draco's compartment, and Draco sees 
his foot.  And it is said that Moody's magic eye can see through 
Harry's cloak, and implied that DD can detect Harry when he is under 
the cloak.

I know that lots of people in the past few days have been writing 
about this comment of Ron's, and I don't remember who said it first, 
but I am certain that it was never made, and certainly wasn't made on 
the first Christmas when Harry got the cloak.

Jerri