ChapDisc: DH 18, The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 182779

Carol earlier, quoting Mad-eye:
> >
> > Our only chance is to use decoys. Even You-Know-Who can't split
himself into seven" (29-30).
> 
Frank D responded:

How ironic. He already did, via Horcruxes.

Carol again:

Nice catch! Although, of course, it's his soul, not his body, that's
split into seven (eight, counting Harry's soul bit). But lots of JKR's
lines have a different or double meaning on a rereading ("We're
identical!" breaks my heart). Another is Moody's ("If one of us dies"
from OoP, which looks like an unintentional prediction of his own fate
in DH.)
>  
> Carol earlier:
> >Imagine if they'd tried to escort Harry to a safe house using the
same plan as in OoP, Harry (trunk, Hedwig and all) on a broom with the
guard circling him. <snip>
> 
> Frank D: Why couldn't Harry just don the Invisibility Cloak? Is the
answer simply that the book wouldn't have turned out the way JKR
wanted it to? Or is there a more material reason? Just want to know.
>
Carol responds:

The same reason that he couldn't wear it for the escape from 4 Privet
Drive in OoP: It would blow off. That's why Moody put a
Disillusionment Charm on him instead. Why they didn't use one his time
on all the Harrys, I don't know. Maybe because some of them were on
Thestrals, and it would be obvious where they were sitting, just as
Harry was sitting in the sidecar of the flying motorcycle, and his
location would be obvious. Even if the broom riders could be concealed
by Disillusionment Charms, they'd be endangered by spells aimed at
their escorts (who would be as unable to see them as the DEs. (Maybe
that's why the Order members circled around near-invisible Harry in
OoP--to keep him with them?

Carol, agreeing that JKR's wanting events to turn out a certain way
(e.g., Mad-eye and Hedwig dying and Harry's wand going off on its own)
was part of the reason for the Polyjuiced Potters plan